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Mashup Score: 1Antibiotic Choice and Clinical Outcomes in Ambulatory Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia - 4 year(s) ago
To describe antibiotic prescribing patterns in ambulatory children with community-acquired pneumonia and to assess the relationship between antibiotic selection and clinical outcomes.
Source: The Journal of PediatricsCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Antibiotic Choice and Clinical Outcomes in Ambulatory Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia - 4 year(s) ago
To describe antibiotic prescribing patterns in ambulatory children with community acquired pneumonia, and to assess the relationship between antibiotic selection and clinical outcomes.
Source: The Journal of PediatricsCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Among children with community-associated pneumonia who have improved by day 5, study findings showed that additional days of antibiotic therapy did not confer additional benefits, researchers reported during IDWeek. “This study provides the data needed to shorten the course of antibiotics for many children with community-associated pneumonia,” Infectious Diseases in Children Editorial
Source: www.healio.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Clinical and financial burden of hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia in patients with selected underlying comorbidities in England - 4 year(s) ago
Background Hospitalised pneumonia may have long-term clinical and financial impact in adult patients with underlying comorbidities. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database to determine the clinical and financial burden over 3 years of hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) to England’s National Health Service (NHS). Subjects…
Source: BMJ Open Respiratory ResearchCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Validation of a Prediction Score for Drug-resistant Microorganisms in Community-Acquired Pneumonia - PubMed - 4 year(s) ago
The PES score showed good accuracy in predicting the risk for microorganisms that required different empirical therapy; however, its use as a single strategy for detecting non-core pathogens could lead to high rates of overtreatment. Given its high negative predictive value, PES score may be used as …
Source: PubMedCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 1
Pneumonia is the most common cause of mortality from infectious diseases, the second leading cause of nosocomial infection, and the leading cause of mortality among hospitalized adults. To improve clinical management, metabolomics has been increasingly applied to find specific metabolic biopatterns (profiling) for the diagnosis and prognosis of various infectious diseases, including pneumonia….
Source: Critical CareCategories: Critical Care, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0No single sign or symptom is sufficient to rule in or rule out community-acquired pneumonia - 4 year(s) ago
While the history and physical examination is important, only a few key signs and symptoms significantly change the underlying likelihood of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Source: EurekAlert!Categories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1No Antibiotics for Pediatric Pneumonia? — JournalFeed - 4 year(s) ago
In children discharged with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia, there was no difference in treatment failure or parent-reported quality-of-life measures between those who received antibiotics and those who did not.
Source: JournalFeedCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Rethinking Fever as Indicator for Blood Culture in Community-Acquired Pneumonia - Pulmonology Advisor - 4 year(s) ago
In patients with CAP, using fever as an indicator of blood culture necessity for detecting bacteremia warrants reevaluation.
Source: Pulmonology AdvisorCategories: PulmonologyTweet
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