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De-escalation of Broad Spectrum Antibiotics Following Negative Cultures in Pneumonia: Rates and Outcomes

BACKGROUND: For patients at risk for multidrug resistant organisms, IDSA/ATS guidelines recommend empiric therapy with 1 agent against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and another against Pseudomonas. Following negative cultures, guidelines are unclear regarding antibiotic de-escal...

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Autores principales: Deshpande, Abhishek, Richter, Sandra S, Haessler, Sarah, Brizendine, Kyle, Lindenauer, Peter, Yu, Pei-Chun, Zilberberg, Marya D, Imrey, Peter, Higgins, Thomas, Rothberg, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631249/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1284