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Antimicrobial Use In Positive Respiratory Viral Panel: Impact Of Procalcitonin Use And Antimicrobial Stewardship, David Beleny

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increasing antibiotic resistant microbes.¹ Blood and sputum cultures are the gold standard for bacterial identification, but they are difficult to obtain and take days to receive back from the lab. Physicians commonly treat patients empirically with antibiotics because there is an increased risk of 30-day mortality in patients with bacterial community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).² Overuse of antibiotics is commonplace in hospitalized patients which is detrimental as it contributes to antibiotic resistance, costs money, wastes resources, and puts patients at risk for unnecessary adverse effects of the medications.³ It was found that 75% of patients presenting with a respiratory …