The authors sought to assess the effectiveness of short vs prolonged-course antibiotic administration for hospital-acquired pneumonia in critically ill adults (most of whom had VAP) by conducting a ...

Pneumococcal urinary antigen testing (PUAT) may be a useful antibiotic stewardship tool when diagnosing and treating pneumonia, pharmacist-researchers say. PUAT is a rapid test that can be used to ...

Antibiotics for pneumonia include Zithromax (azithromycin), Biaxin (clarithromycin), and Erythrocin (erythromycin). Azithromycin is often the first-line treatment since it is effective against many ...

The results of the largest study in a high-income country looking at antibiotic dosing and duration for children hospitalized with pneumonia show that the number of doses given can be reduced safely, ...

Clinicians should treat ventilator‑associated pneumonia (VAP) until the infection is controlled and the patient is clearly ...

Inappropriate use of broad-spectrum antibiotics to treat children with pneumonia remains common, despite guidelines recommending more targeted treatment, two studies published online March 7 in ...

Cleveland Clinic has received $2.5 million to conduct a multicenter clinical trial to evaluate ways to reduce the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia, ...

PHOENIX -- Individualized short-course antibiotic treatment proved noninferior to usual long-course treatment for 60-day mortality and pneumonia recurrence in patients with ventilator-associated ...

In a recent study published in the journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection, researchers conducted a population-based emulated trial to evaluate the clinical efficacy of penicillin V (PcV) and ...

Algorithm-driven prompts with patient-specific estimates about their risk of having a multidrug-resistant infection significantly reduced the use of empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics in adults ...

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