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CON: Procalcitonin does not have clinical utility in children with community-acquired pneumonia

Most clinical studies supporting procalcitonin (PCT)-guided management of lower respiratory tract infections have been performed in adults. There is a paucity of studies evaluating the clinical impact of PCT use in children and limited data informing age-appropriate PCT cut-offs; diagnostic accuracy...

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Autor principal: Banerjee, Ritu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8531866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34704032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlab152