For those who have mild or non-severe COVID-19 and low suspicion of bacterial infection, the WHO strongly recommends against ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) now advises against using antibiotics for COVID-19 patients without confirmed bacterial ...

Intravenous and broad-spectrum antibiotics are used more commonly in Black and non-Hispanic Black pediatric inpatients than ...

Adults who have been in the affected area since late July with flu-like symptoms, fever, cough or difficulty breathing should ...

A recent narrative review describes how to identify and manage pneumonia that does not respond to antibiotic treatment.

Among hospitalized pneumonia patients, screening for MRSA colonization with a nasal swab-based rapid PCR test cut duration of ...

When treating patients with hospital-acquired or ventilator-acquired pneumonia, providers should consider keeping the maximum course of antibiotic treatment to seven days, according to new ...

INSPIRE Pneumonia This trial included 96,451 patients (51,671 in the baseline period and 44,780 in the intervention period) hospitalized with pneumonia.

Higher clinical severity was seen in patients with positive vs negative CR, with longer-lasting symptoms. Antibiotics were initiated for 99.3% of patients with positive CR and 68.7% with negative CR.

Short-Course vs Prolonged-Course Antibiotic Therapy for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Critically Ill Adults Pugh R, Grant C, Cooke RPD, Dempsey G Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;10:CD007577 ...

Source Reference: Mo Y, et al "Individualised, short-course antibiotic treatment versus usual long-course treatment for ventilator-associated pneumonia (REGARD-VAP): a multicentre, individually ...