Duration of antibiotic therapy: shorter is better

B Spellberg, LB Rice - Annals of internal medicine, 2019 - acpjournals.org
… to compare new antibiotics with traditional durations rather than short-course therapy in
the … Payers covering antibiotic prescriptions cover the full duration of therapy even when …

Duration of antibiotic therapy for bacteremia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

TC Havey, RA Fowler, N Daneman - Critical Care, 2011 - Springer
… No significant differences in clinical cure, microbiologic cure and survival were detected
among bacteremic patients receiving shorter versus longer duration antibiotic therapy. An …

[HTML][HTML] Duration of antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit

G Zilahi, MA McMahon, P Povoa… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
antibiotic duration is both to stop antibiotics when not needed (sterile invasive cultures with
clinical improvement) and not to start antibiotics … identify appropriate therapy length although …

Duration of antibiotic therapy for common infections

J Grant, NL Saux… - Official Journal of …, 2022 - jammi.utpjournals.press
… pneumonias (eg, empyema, lung abscess), the duration is likely longer, but surgical intervention
plays a key role in managing infection and decreasing the duration of antibiotic therapy. …

Duration of antibiotic therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the long and the short of it

EM Eichenberger, VG Fowler… - Clinical …, 2020 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
… The optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB)
remains … to prescribe the shortest effective duration of therapy for invasive S. aureus infections [ …

Proposal for shorter antibiotic therapies

C Wintenberger, B Guery, E Bonnet, B Castan… - Medecine et maladies …, 2017 - Elsevier
… The PCT level-guided antibiotic therapy duration group was … CAP Before/after study 62/65
Antibiotic therapy duration decreased … of the benefit of reducing antibiotic therapy duration

[HTML][HTML] Duration of antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients with bloodstream infections: A retrospective cohort study

TC Havey, RA Fowler, R Pinto, M Elligsen… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The duration of antibiotic therapy is displayed for each of the 100 patients with bacteremia. …
duration of antibiotic therapy was defined by the number of consecutive days of antibiotics

Optimal duration of antibiotic therapy in vertebral osteomyelitis

F Roblot, JM Besnier, L Juhel, C Vidal, S Ragot… - Seminars in arthritis and …, 2007 - Elsevier
… We retrospectively reviewed the clinical features of VO and antibiotic therapy for VO in a …
according to treatment duration. Our goal was to verify that short-duration antibiotic therapy (≤6 …

Procalcitonin to guide duration of antibiotic therapy in intensive care patients: a randomized prospective controlled trial

M Hochreiter, T Köhler, AM Schweiger, FS Keck, B Bein… - Critical care, 2009 - Springer
antibiotic therapy after confirmed or high-grade suspected infections were enrolled in this
study. In 57 patients antibiotic therapy … a standardized duration of antibiotic therapy over eight …

Prophylactic and preventive antibiotic therapy: timing, duration and economics

HH Stone, BB Haney, LD Kolb, CE Geheber… - Annals of …, 1979 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… five days of postoperative antibiotic therapy; no significant … antibiotic again failed to reduce
further the wound and peritoneal infection rates, as noted on comparing perioperative therapy