Title: Reducing Collateral Damage From Mandates for Time to Antibiotics in Pediatric Sepsis—Primum Non Nocere.
Authors: Schlapbach, Luregn J.; Weiss, Scott L.; Wolf, Joshua
Abstract: This Viewpoint describes how recommendations for optimizing the treatment of pediatric sepsis may have resulted in overdiagnosis and overuse of antibiotics.
Subjects: ANTIBIOTICS; ANTI-infective agents; DRUG utilization; INTRAVENOUS therapy; PEDIATRICS; SEPTIC shock; SEPSIS; UNNECESSARY surgery; DECISION making in clinical medicine; DISEASE progression; EARLY medical intervention; CHILDREN; DIAGNOSIS
Publication: JAMA Pediatrics, 2019, Vol 173, Issue 5, p409
ISSN: 2168-6203
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.0174

Reducing Collateral Damage From Mandates for Time to Antibiotics in Pediatric Sepsis—Primum Non Nocere.

Schlapbach, Luregn J.; Weiss, Scott L.; Wolf, Joshua