Procalcitonin and lung ultrasonography point-of-care testing to decide on antibiotic prescription in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care: protocol of a pragmatic cluster randomized trial

BACKGROUND: A minority of patients presenting with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) to their general practitioner (GP) have community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and require antibiotic therapy. Identifying them is challenging, because of overlapping symptomatology and low diagnostic performance...

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Autores principales: Lhopitallier, Loïc, Kronenberg, Andreas, Meuwly, Jean-Yves, Locatelli, Isabella, Dubois, Julie, Marti, Joachim, Mueller, Yolanda, Senn, Nicolas, D’Acremont, Valérie, Boillat-Blanco, Noémie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0898-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0898-3

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