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356. The Role of Procalcitonin in Antimicrobial Stewardship Among Cancer Patients Admitted with COVID-19

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) has been used to guide antimicrobial therapy in bacterial infections. With the wide spread use of empiric use of antibiotics in cancer patients admitted with COVID-19 disease, we aimed to evaluate the role of PCT in decreasing the duration of empiric antimicrobial the...

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Autores principales: Dagher, Hiba, Chaftari, Anne-Marie, Hachem, Ray Y, Jiang, Ying, Malek, Alexandre, Garnes, Natalie J Dailey, Borjan, Jovan, Mulanovich, Victor, Raad, Issam I
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/PMC8644013/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.557