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SUBMITTER: Corti C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4922826 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Corti Caspar C Fally Markus M Fabricius-Bjerre Andreas A Mortensen Katrine K Jensen Birgitte Nybo BN Andreassen Helle F HF Porsbjerg Celeste C Knudsen Jenny Dahl JD Jensen Jens-Ulrik JU
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 20160622
<h4>Background</h4>This study was conducted to investigate whether point-of-care (POC) procalcitonin (PCT) measurement can reduce redundant antibiotic treatment in patients hospitalized with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD).<h4>Methods</h4>One-hundred and twenty adult patients admitted with AECOPD were enrolled in this open-label randomized trial. Patients were allocated to either the POC PCT-guided intervention arm (n=62) or the control arm, in which antibiotic therapy followed local guideli ...[more]