Although clinical trials have demonstrated the utility of procalcitonin (PCT) testing and potential benefit on antibiotic stewardship, findings suggest that clinicians do not order PCT testing with ...

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are among the most common reasons for antibiotic prescription in primary care. A test that can differentiate between bacterial and viral RTIs could help to reduce ...

A study published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases claims that high adherence to procalcitonin-guided antibiotic prescribing guidelines is necessary to reduce antibiotic use in patients with ...

Credit: Getty Images. Among 140 patients included in the analysis, 56.4% had serum procalcitonin levels of less than 0.5 ng/mL, while 43.6% had levels of 0.5 ng/mL or higher. Elevated serum ...

"We believe that our findings could be useful to guide the clinical evaluation in the emergency department in different ways . . . procalcitonin level should be evaluated not only on admission, but ...

The sixth most common principal diagnosis, sepsis, also takes the title as the most expensive inpatient diagnosis, racking up about $20 billion in hospitals’ aggregated annual costs. Sepsis isn’t ...

Emergency physicians do not commonly use the tools available for risk stratifying patients with febrile neutropenia. Most decide to admit these patients, even when they are considered to be at low ...

Antimicrobial use is almost universal in critically ill patients, and microbial resistance in intensive care units (ICUs) has become a major factor influencing both resource utilization and patient ...

Background: Procalcitonin (PCT) is an effective and sensitive diagnostic biomarker that can facilitate the early detection of infection and septicemia, but whether it can similarly be utilized to ...

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