Tag: pneumonia

1. In this target trial emulation, a shorter antibiotic course (3 to 4 days) demonstrated a similar 30-day all-cause mortality ...

1. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, adjunct corticosteroids likely reduce short-term mortality in patients with severe non-COVID-19 pneumonia and ...

Doxycycline in Pneumonia Doxycycline remains an important antibiotic in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Its reliable activity against atypical ...

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1. Using either procalcitonin or c-reactive protein as a biomarker to guide antibiotic treatment in patients with community-acquired pneumonia reduces ...

1. Patient data from a Taiwanese national database demonstrated that those who took fluoroquinolones had a greater risk of aortic ...

1. In this randomized controlled trial, rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) were lower in ventilated patients using amikacin as compared ...

1. In this superiority, parallel-group, open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT), point-of-care (POC) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing resulted in ...

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