The effect of duration of therapy for treatment of Staphylococcus aureus blood stream infection: an application of cloning to deal with immortal-time bias in an analysis of data from a cohort study (BSI-FOO)

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effect of treatment duration on in-hospital mortality in patients with Staphylococcus aureus blood stream infection and demonstrate the biases that can arise when immortal-time bias is ignored. EXPOSURE: We compared three treatment strategies: short therapy (<10 days),...

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Autores principales: Evans, Rebecca N, Harris, Jessica, Rogers, Chris A, Macgowan, Alasdair P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9780533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36346710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkac374

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