Respiratory medicine
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Respiratory medicine · Mar 2012
Multicenter StudyGuideline adherence and macrolides reduced mortality in outpatients with pneumonia.
For outpatients with pneumonia, guidelines recommend empiric antibiotics and some suggest macrolides are preferred agents. We hypothesized that both guideline-concordant antibiotics and macrolides would be associated with reduced mortality. ⋯ In outpatients with pneumonia, treatment with guideline-concordant antibiotics and macrolides were both associated with mortality reduction.