ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021
A Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein-Guided Clinical Pathway for Reducing Antibiotic Use in Children Hospitalized with Bronchiolitis.
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- State of the Art of Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Stewardship in Pediatric Setting.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Antibiotic Utilization in Hospitalized Children with Bronchiolitis: A Prospective Study Investigating Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics at a Secondary Hospital in Madrid (2004-2022).Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Lesson for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): Hygiene Works.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Despite the lack of evidence that bronchodilators, corticosteroids, and antibiotics are useful in treating bronchiolitis, their use is still widespread. This study aimed to determine the consumption of antibiotics for bronchiolitis before and after a procalcitonin-guided clinical pathway (CP) implementation. In December 2019, a CP for lower respiratory tract infection management was implemented at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Padua University Hospital. This was a pre-post, quasi-experimental study that assessed the changes in the treatment of bronchiolitis during two bimesters preceding the CP implementation (pre-period: January 2018-February 2018 and January 2019-February 2019) and during the bimester after CP implementation (post-period January 2020-February 2020). After the CP implementation, there was a significant reduction in antibiotic prescriptions from 36.2% to 12.5% (
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