Meeting
Abstract Number: 362
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker that correlates with the presence of bacterial infection in certain clinical scenarios; it has increasingly accepted indications for antibiotic stewardship. Most sources suggest that antibiotics should be considered for patients with suspected infection and PCT values ≥ 0.25-0.5 ng/ml; conversely, clinicians should consider withholding antibiotics for patients with PCT […]