Early Switch From Intravenous to Oral Antibiotics and Early Hospital Discharge
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Early switch from intravenous to oral antibiotics: guidelines and implementation in a large teaching hospital.
In recent years 'switch therapy' has been advocated: short intravenous antibiotic therapy, for 2-3 days, followed by oral treatment for the remainder of the course. Little is known about the number of patients that could benefit from early switch therapy and the consequences of introducing this strategy in everyday practice. We prospectively registered all antibiotic courses on wards for Intern...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.20.2449