Factors Associated With 30-Day Mortality Rate in Respiratory Infections Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae
Author(s) -
Matthew P. Cheng,
Isaac I. Bogoch,
Karen Green,
Agron Plevneshi,
Wallis Rudnick,
Altynay Shigayeva,
Allison McGeer,
Todd C. Lee,
Mahin Baqi,
David Richardson,
Abdelbaset Belhaj,
Ian Kitai,
Danny Z. Chen,
Eileen de Villa,
Walter Demczuk,
Irene Martín,
Hani L. N. Dick,
James M. Downey,
Jeff Powis,
Nataly Farshait,
King S Lee,
Wayne L. Gold,
Sharon Walmsley,
Frances Jamieson,
Jennie Johnstone,
Sigmund Krajden,
J. Kapala,
Kevin Katz,
Mark Loeb,
Fiona Smaill,
Reena Lovinsky,
David Rose,
Charlotte Ma,
Sylvia Pong-Porter,
Barbara Willey,
Matthew Muller,
Sharon O’Grady,
Anne Opavsky,
Krystyna Ostrowska,
Alicia Sarabia,
Neil Rau,
Susan E. Richardson,
Dat Tran,
Valérie Sales,
Phoebe Shokry,
Michael E. Silverman,
Andrew E. Simor,
Mary Vearncombe,
Greg Tyrrell,
Aurora Wilson,
Barbara Yaffe,
Deborah Yamamura
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix999
Subject(s) - medicine , streptococcus pneumoniae , confidence interval , hazard ratio , antibiotics , mortality rate , antibiotic therapy , empiric therapy , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , alternative medicine , biology
In multivariable analysis of associations between initial antibiotic therapy and clinical outcomes in 5005 patients with microbiologically confirmed Streptococcus pneumoniae infections, "discordant" empiric antibiotic therapy was not associated with 30-day mortality rate (hazard ratio, 0.94; 95% confidence interval, .67-1.32).
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