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Procalcitonin guided antibiotic therapy and hospitalization in patients with lower respiratory tract infections: a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial
- Abstract:
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Background: Lower respiratory tract infections like acute bronchitis, exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and community-acquired pneumonia are often unnecessarily treated with antibiotics, mainly because of physicians' difficulties to distinguish viral from bacterial cause and to estimate disease-severity. The goal of this trial is to compare medical outcomes, use of antibiotics and hospital resources in a strategy based on enforced eviden...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Health Services Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Article number:
- 102
- Publication date:
- 2007-07-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2007-07-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1472-6963
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:113049
- Source identifiers:
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113049
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Schuetz et al
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- © 2007 Schuetz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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