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2008. Outcomes of Patients with Positive Procalcitonin Levels Who Do Not Receive Continued Antibiotics

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker used to direct continued use of antibiotic therapy in patients with sepsis and community-acquired pneumonia. There is a lack of data on outcomes of patients with a positive PCT who do not receive continued antibiotics. We compared outcomes in patients w...

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Autores principales: George, Jamie, Kale-Pradhan, Pramodini, Johnson, Leonard B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808812/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1688