PIRATE project: point-of-care, informatics-based randomised controlled trial for decreasing overuse of antibiotic therapy in Gram-negative bacteraemia

Csaki Huttner, Angela; Albrich, Werner C; Bochud, Pierre-Yves; Gayet-Ageron, Angèle; Rossel, Anne; Von Dach, Elodie; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen; Kaiser, Laurent

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017996

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English

PIRATE project: point-of-care, informatics-based randomised controlled trial for decreasing overuse of antibiotic therapy in Gram-negative bacteraemia

ContributorsCsaki Huttner, Angela; Albrich, Werner C; Bochud, Pierre-Yves; Gayet-Ageron, Angèle

; Rossel, Anne; Von Dach, Elodie; Harbarth, Stéphan Juergen

; Kaiser, Laurent

Published inBMJ Open, vol. 7, no. 7, e017996

Publication date2017

Abstract

Antibiotic overuse drives antibiotic resistance. The optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for Gram-negative bacteraemia (GNB), a common community and hospital-associated infection, remains unknown and unstudied via randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

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CSAKI HUTTNER, Angela et al. PIRATE project: point-of-care, informatics-based randomised controlled trial for decreasing overuse of antibiotic therapy in Gram-negative bacteraemia. In: BMJ Open, 2017, vol. 7, n° 7, p. e017996. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017996