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1476. Impact of an Educational Campaign on Rates of Sputum Culture Acquisition as an Opportunity for Antibiotic De-escalation

BACKGROUND: The 2019 community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines recommend obtaining a sputum culture in patients who are empirically treated for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Pseudomonas aeruginosa to assist clinicians in optimizing antimicrobial therapy. A previous study...

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Autores principales: Snawerdt, Jessica, Bremmer, Derek N, Carr, Dustin R, Walsh, Thomas L, Trienski, Tamara, Buchanan, Carley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7777971/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1657