Shorten Antibiotic Durations for Kids With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

March 2022

Recent evidence will spur a shift toward SHORTER courses of antibiotics in children with community-acquired pneumonia.

Pneumonia is viral in over 7 in 10 kids.

But when a bacterial infection is suspected, we often give 10 days of an antibiotic...based on durations used in older studies.

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