Cargando…

The association between pre-hospital antibiotic therapy and subsequent in-hospital mortality in adults presenting with community-acquired pneumonia: an observational study

BACKGROUND: The majority of patients with community acquired-pneumonia (CAP) are treated in primary care and the mortality in this group is very low. However, a small but significant proportion of patients who begin treatment in the community subsequently require admission due to symptomatic deterio...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Chakrabarti, Biswajit, Wootton, Dan, Lane, Steven, Kanwar, Elizabeth, Somers, Joseph, Proctor, Jacyln, Prospero, Nancy, Woodhead, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5866909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41479-018-0047-4