Do you adhere to the standard 5-day minimum treatment duration for community-acquired pneumonia, or have you used shorter courses for certain low-risk patients?
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This is a question addressing a shorter duration of antibiotic therapy than the current IDSA guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) recommend. It has been the topic of several studies, for example, 3-day treatment (Richard T. Ellison III, MD, reviewing Dinh et al., PMID 33773631; Niederma...
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at Stanford For what it's worth, the ATS has just published a ...
at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center I think patients diagnosed with CAP and are cured ...
For what it's worth, the ATS has just published a ...
I think patients diagnosed with CAP and are cured ...