Procalcitonin-based guidelines and lower respiratory tract infections

JAMA. 2010 Feb 3;303(5):418; author reply 419-20. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.52.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Biomarkers / blood
  • Calcitonin / blood*
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Humans
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Primary Health Care
  • Protein Precursors / blood*
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / blood
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Biomarkers
  • CALCA protein, human
  • Protein Precursors
  • Calcitonin
  • Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide