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. 2012 Apr;33(4):424-6.
doi: 10.1086/664764.

Impact of the use of procalcitonin assay in hospitalized adult patients with pneumonia at a community acute care hospital

Janet L Kook  1 , Stephanie R Chao, Jennifer Le, Philip A Robinson
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Impact of the use of procalcitonin assay in hospitalized adult patients with pneumonia at a community acute care hospital

Janet L Kook et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Apr.

Abstract

A retrospective, quasi-experimental cohort study compared antibiotic use before and after implementation of a procalcitonin assay at a community acute care hospital. This study demonstrated that the implementation of the procalcitonin assay was associated with a decrease in antibiotic days of therapy in adult patients with pneumonia.

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