Shortening antibiotic therapy duration for hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in critically ill patients: a causal inference model from the international EUROBACT-2 database

• DOI: 10.1007/s00134-025-07857-6
• Publication Date: 2025-04-17T15:20:11Z
• Authors: Lena Gajdos; Niccolo Buetti; Alexis Tabah; Stephane Ruckly; Murat Akova; Frederik Sjöval; Kostoula Arvanti; Jan de Waele; Hendrik Bracht; Francois Barbier; Jean-François Timsit; ; Alexis Tabah; Jeffrey Lipman; Alexis Tabah; Hamish Pollock; Ben Margetts; Andrew Udy; Meredith Young; Neeraj Bhadange; Steven Tyler; Anne Ledtischke; Mackenzie Finnis; Anne Ledtischke; Mackenzie Finnis; Jyotsna Dwivedi; Manoj Saxena; Vishwanath Biradar; Natalie Soar; Vineet Sarode; David Brewster; Adrian Regli; Elizabeth Weeda; Samiul Ahmed; Cheryl Fourie; Kevin Laupland; Mahesh Ramanan; James Walsham; Jason Meyer; Edward Litton; Anna Maria Palermo; Timothy Yap; Ege Eroglu; Antony George Att...; C’havala Jaramillo; Khalid Mk Nafees; Khalid Mahmood Kh...; Nurhikmahtul Aqil...; Haji Adi Muhamad ...; Tomas Mon; P. Dhakshina Moorthi; Shah Sudhirchandra; Dhadappa Damodar ...; Qiu Haibo; Jianfeng Xie; Qiu Haibo; Xie Jianfeng; Lu Wei-Hua; Wang Zhen; Chuanyun Qian; Jili Luo; Xiaomei Chen; Hao Wang; Peng Zhao; Juan Zhao; Qiu Wusi; Chen Mingmin; Lei Xu; Chengfen Yin; Ruilan Wang; Jinfeng Wang; Yongjie Yin; Min Zhang; Jilu Ye; Chungfang Hu; Suming Zhou; Min Huang; Jing Yan; Yan Wang; Bingyu Qin; Ling Ye; Xie Weifeng; Li Peije; Nan Geng; Lowell Ling; Lowell Ling; Yoshiro Hayashi; Yoshiro Hayashi; Toshiyuki Karumai; Masaki Yamasaki; Satoru Hashimoto; Koji Hosokawa; Jun Makino; Takeo Matsuyoshi; Akira Kuriyama; Hidenobu Shigemitsu; Yuka Mishima; Michio Nagashima; Hideki Yoshida; Shigeki Fujitani; Koichiro Omori; Hiroshi Rinka; Hiroki Saito; Kaori Atobe; Hideaki Kato; Shunsuke Takaki; Helmi Sulaiman; M. Shahnaz Hasan; Muhamad Fadhil Ha...; Lee See Pheng; Sheshendrasurian ...; Mun Thing Liew; Siong Ling Danny ...; Kean Khang Fong; Hamizah Bt Abdul ...; Zuraini Md Noor; Lee Kok Tong; Abd. 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