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Is antibacterial treatment intensity lower in elderly patients? A retrospective cohort study in a German surgical intensive care unit

BACKGROUND: Demographic change concurrent with medical progress leads to an increasing number of elderly patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Antibacterial treatment is an important, often life-saving, aspect of intensive care but burdened by the associated antimicrobial resistance risk. Elderly...

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Autores principales: Beier, Dominik, Weiß, Christel, Hagmann, Michael, Balaban, Ümniye, Thiel, Manfred, Schneider-Lindner, Verena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31182082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4204-0