No need to stay in hospital after antibiotic switch in pneumonia
- Intermediate Trainee in Intensive Care, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester, UK; dr_pagaria@yahoo.co.uk
This was a multicentre retrospective analysis during one of two 6 month periods in 1998–9 which assessed the benefit of in-hospital observation after the switch from intravenous to oral antibiotics in patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) aged at least 65 years. The US Medicare National Pneumonia Project database was used to create a sample …
