Short-course antibiotic therapy—replacing constantine units with “shorter is better”

N Wald-Dickler, B Spellberg - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… clarified necessary antibiotic durations by … short course vs traditional courses of
antibiotics for a variety of bacterial infections (Table 1). Interestingly, in many cases, the short-course

Shortcourse versus prolonged‐course antibiotic therapy for hospital‐acquired pneumonia in critically ill adults

R Pugh, C Grant, RPD Cooke… - Cochrane Database of …, 2011 - cochranelibrary.com
… Our finding that shortcourse antibiotic therapy for VAP in the absence of NF‐GNB may
be adequate, without increased risk of recurrence or mortality, is consistent with data from …

Short course antibiotic therapy for respiratory infections: a review of the evidence

ME PICHICHERO - The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2000 - journals.lww.com
… based on the antibiotic used for the short course of therapy: trials with short-acting oral
antibiotics such as … In trials in which short-acting oral antibiotics were used for the short course of …

Short antibiotic treatment courses or how short is short?

E Rubinstein - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2007 - Elsevier
… for abbreviated courses of antibiotic therapy. Short courses of antibiotic therapy are not a …
with short-course antibiotics. Of 127 pregnant women with bacteruria administered an 8-day …

Does short-course antibiotic therapy better meet patient expectations?

B Perez-Gorricho, M Ripoll… - International journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
… to the length of antibiotic therapy. However, the study also demonstrates that length of
therapy, as well as other key factors, define patient perceptions of antibiotic effectiveness and …

Short-course versus long-course oral antibiotic treatment for infections treated in outpatient settings: a review of systematic reviews

EE Dawson-Hahn, S Mickan, I Onakpoya… - Family …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… women treated with long course antibiotic therapy, while risk of discontinuation of therapy
and adverse events were lower for those on short course antibiotics (Supplementary Table 6). …

Shortcourse vs long‐course antibiotic treatment for community‐acquired pneumonia: A literature review

K Møller Gundersen, J Nygaard Jensen… - Basic & clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… Consequently, some countries have recommended shortening the duration of antibiotic
of a short-course antibiotic is comparable to a longer course of antibiotics in adults with CAP …

Shortening the course of antibiotic treatment in the intensive care unit

J Barrett, J Edgeworth, D Wyncoll - … Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Short courses will likely fail to adequately treat deep tissue infections … Short courses are also
not appropriate for infections due to … Short-course empiric antibiotic therapy for patients with …

Shortened courses of antibiotics for bacterial infections: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

AM Hanretty, JC Gallagher - … Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… In this review, we consider the evidence on shortened courses of single-agent antibiotic
therapyantibiotics to assess the potential for short courses, which could be difficult in practice. …

Comparing the outcomes of adults with Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia receiving short-course versus prolonged-course antibiotic therapy in a multicenter, propensity …

D Chotiprasitsakul, JH Han, SE Cosgrove… - Clinical infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… a protective effect of short-course antibiotic therapy on the emergence of … Short courses of
antibiotic therapy yield similar clinical outcomes as prolonged courses of antibiotic therapy for …