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ArticleInternal medicine journal2022

Appropriate prescribing of azithromycin for community-acquired pneumonia.

Sue Qian, Johnny Siu, Abbas Hussein, Yizhong Zheng

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Article in Internal medicine journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sue QianDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3843-4376
Johnny SiuDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Abbas HusseinDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Yizhong ZhengDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
St George Hospital · AUSutherland Hospital · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Azithromycin is prescribed for atypical antimicrobial cover in severe community-acquired pneumonia. Inappropriate azithromycin administration incurs unnecessary financial costs, exacerbates antimicrobial resistance and risks QTc interval prolongation leading to cardiac arrhythmias. The present study demonstrated that a majority of patients were prescribed azithromycin without having electrocardiograms to assess the QTc interval and without meeting criteria for severe community-acquired pneumonia based on CURB-65 score.

Indexed as

Community-Acquired InfectionsLong QT SyndromePneumoniaAnti-Bacterial AgentsAzithromycinElectrocardiographyHumansAnti-Bacterial AgentsAzithromycinantimicrobial stewardshiparrhythmiaazithromycincommunity-acquired pneumoniaprolonged QT intervaltherapeutic guideline

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PMID35608398
PMCPMC9322330
OpenAlexW4281389338

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