Inflammatory biomarker-based clinical practice in patients with pneumonia: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

• Main Authors: Dimitropoulos Dimitrios (Author), Karmpadakis Michalis (Author), Paraskevas Themistoklis (Author), Michailides Christos (Author), Lagadinou Maria (Author), Platanaki Christina (Author), Pierrakos Charalampos (Author), Velissaris Dimitrios (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sciendo, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: Biomarker-based clinical practice is currently gaining ground and increasingly affects decision making. A variety of biomarkers have been studied through the years and some of them have already an established role in modern medicine, such as procalcitonin (PCT) which has been proposed to...