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Meier, Marc A; Branche, Angela; Neeser, Olivia L; Wirz, Yannick; Haubitz, Sebastian; Bouadma, Lila; Wolff, Michel; Luyt, Charles E; Chastre, Jean; Tubach, Florence; Christ-Crain, Mirjam; Corti, Caspar; Jensen, Jens-Ulrik S; Deliberato, Rodrigo O; Kristoffersen, Kristina B; Damas, Pierre; Nobre, Vandack; Oliveira, Carolina F; Shehabi, Yahya; Stolz, Daiana; Tamm, Michael; Mueller, Beat; Schuetz, Philipp
Clinical infectious diseases, 07/2019, Volume: 69, Issue: 3Journal Article, Web Resource
Whether procalcitonin (PCT)-guided antibiotic management in patients with positive blood cultures is safe remains understudied. We performed a patient-level meta-analysis to investigate effects of PCT-guided antibiotic management in patients with bacteremia. We extracted and analyzed individual data of 523 patients with positive blood cultures included in 13 trials, in which patients were randomly assigned to receive antibiotics based on PCT levels (PCT group) or a control group. The main efficacy endpoint was duration of antibiotic treatment. The main safety endpoint was mortality within 30 days. Mean duration of antibiotic therapy was significantly shorter for 253 patients who received PCT-guided treatment than for 270 control patients (-2.86 days 95% confidence interval CI, -4.88 to -.84; P = .006). Mortality was similar in both arms (16.6% vs 20.0%; P = .263). In subgroup analyses by type of pathogen, we noted a trend of shorter mean antibiotic durations in the PCT arm for patients infected with gram-positive organisms or Escherichia coli and significantly shorter treatment for subjects with pneumococcal bacteremia. In analysis by site of infection, antibiotic exposure was shortened in PCT subjects with Streptococcus pneumoniae respiratory infection and those with E. coli urogenital infections. This meta-analysis of patients with bacteremia receiving PCT-guided antibiotic management demonstrates lower antibiotic exposure without an apparent increase in mortality. Few differences were demonstrated in subgroup analysis stratified by type or site of infection but notable for decreased exposure in patients with pneumococcal pneumonia and E. coli urogenital infections.
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