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Prevent Antibiotic overUSE (PAUSE): Impact of a Provider Driven Antibiotic-Time out on Antibiotic Use and Prescribing

BACKGROUND: Empiric antibiotic (abx) therapy is often not readdressed after clinical progress becomes apparent and the results of diagnostic studies become available. We sought to evaluate whether an antibiotic time out (ATO) by front-line clinicians after 3–5 days of abx therapy could lead to a red...

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Autores principales: Thom, Kerri, Tamma, Pranita D, Harris, Anthony D, Morgan, Daniel, Dzintars, Kathryn, Srinivasan, Arjun, Avdic, Edina, Li, David X, Pineles, Lisa, Cosgrove, Sara E
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/PMC5631900/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.050