Empiric antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia in adult patients: a systematic review and a network meta-analysis

• Published in: Thorax Vol. 76; no. 10; pp. 1020 - 1031
• Main Authors: Montes-Andujar, Lara, Tinoco, Elena, Baez-Pravia, Orville, Martin-Saborido, Carlos, Blanco-Schweizer, Pablo, Segura, Carmen, Prol Silva, Estefania, Reyes, Vivivan, Rodriguez Cobo, Ana, Zurdo, Carmen, Angel, Verónica, Varona, Olga, Valero, José, Suarez del Villar, Rafael, Ortiz, Guillermo, Villanueva, Julio, Menéndez, Justo, Blanco, Jesús, Torres, Antoni, Cardinal-Fernández, Pablo A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society 01.10.2021; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Antibiotics; Bias; clinical epidemiology; Community-Acquired Infections - drug therapy; emergency medicine; Humans; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; Meta-analysis; Mortality; Patients; Pneumonia; Pneumonia - drug therapy; Respiratory infection; Systematic review; Europe; pneumonia; emergency medicine; clinical epidemiology; respiratory infection

ObjectiveThe main aim of this network meta-analysis is to identify the empiric antibiotic (Em-ATB) with the highest probability of being the best (HPBB) in terms of (1) cure rate and (2) mortality rate in hospitalised patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) .MethodInclusion criteria: (1) ad...