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Prevalence of Clinical Signs Within Reference Ranges Among Hospitalized Patients Prescribed Antibiotics for Pneumonia

IMPORTANCE: Antibiotics are frequently prescribed for suspected pneumonia, but overdiagnosis is common and fixed regimens are often used despite randomized trials suggesting it is safe to stop antibiotics once clinical signs are normalizing. OBJECTIVE: To quantify potential excess antibiotic prescri...

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Autores principales: Klompas, Michael, Ochoa, Aileen, Ji, Wenjing, McKenna, Caroline, Clark, Roger, Shenoy, Erica S., Hooper, David, Rhee, Chanu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Medical Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7368172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32678449
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10700