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Short Course Antibiotics for Peds CAP: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

by Marco Propersi posted December 5, 2022 No Comments

Background: There is a shifting paradigm with persuasive evidence favoring a shorter duration of antibiotics for outpatient management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children. The SAFER and CAP-IT trials found that short-course antibiotic therapy was not inferior to standard duration …

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The CAP-IT Trial: Amoxicillin Dose and Duration in Children with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

by Muhammad Durrani posted December 6, 2021 No Comments

Background/Introduction: The commonly cited duration of antibiotic therapy (7-14 days) for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has historically been based on arbitrary timelines extrapolated from a desire to prevent treatment failures and avoid under-treatment rather than evidence-based medicine. Even the original literature on …

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