Serial Procalcitonin as a Predictor of Bacteremia and Need for Intensive Care Unit Care in Adults With Pneumonia, Including Those With Highest Severity: A Prospective Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a prohormone that rises in bacterial pneumonia and has promise in reducing antibiotic use. Despite these attributes, there are inconclusive data on its use for clinical prognostication. We hypothesize that serial PCT measurements can predict mortality, intensive ca...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:Open Forum Infect Dis
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: McCluskey, Suzanne M., Schuetz, Philipp, Abers, Michael S., Bearnot, Benjamin, Morales, Maria E., Hoffman, Debora, Patel, Shreya, Rosario, Lauren, Chiappa, Victor, Parry, Blair A., Callahan, Ryan T., Bond, Sheila A., Lewandrowski, Kent, Binder, William, Filbin, Michael R., Vyas, Jatin M., Mansour, Michael K.
التنسيق: Artigo
اللغة:Inglês
منشور في: Oxford University Press 2017
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414101/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28480236
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw238
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