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The Use of Procalcitonin as an Antimicrobial Stewardship Tool and a Predictor of Disease Severity in COVID-19
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2021.
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Abstract
- In our study, procalcitonin was associated with both antibiotic use and duration in patients with COVID-19, as well as established biochemical markers of COVID-19 disease severity and oxygen requirement, suggesting a potential role for procalcitonin in COVID-19 antimicrobial stewardship.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
bacterial infections and mycoses
Procalcitonin
Disease severity
Oxygen breathing
Internal medicine
parasitic diseases
Medicine
Antimicrobial stewardship
In patient
Antibiotic use
business
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
Biochemical markers
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........61978d72d00b0c1103af733238a7f5ea
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.21249853