Point-of-care C-reactive protein testing to reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics for non-severe acute respiratory infections in Vietnamese primary health care: a randomised controlled trial

• Asıl Yazarlar: Nga T T Do, MSc (Yazar), Ngan T D Ta, MSc (Yazar), Ninh T H Tran, MSc (Yazar), Hung M Than, MSc (Yazar), Bich T N Vu, MSc (Yazar), Long B Hoang, MD (Yazar), H Rogier van Doorn, PhD (Yazar), Dung T V Vu, MSc (Yazar), Jochen W L Cals, PhD (Yazar), Arjun Chandna, MD (Yazar), Yoel Lubell, PhD (Yazar), Behzad Nadjm, PhD (Yazar), Guy Thwaites, PhD (Yazar), Marcel Wolbers, PhD (Yazar), Kinh V Nguyen, PhD (Yazar), Prof. Heiman F L Wertheim, PhD (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Elsevier, 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Background: Inappropriate antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections is common in primary health care, but distinguishing serious from self-limiting infections is difficult, particularly in low-resource settings. We assessed whether C-reactive protein point-of-care testing can safely redu...