Impact on Patient Management of a Novel Host Response Test for Distinguishing Bacterial and Viral Infections: Real World Evidence from the Urgent Care Setting

Impact on Patient Management of a Novel Host Response Test for Distinguishing Bacterial and Viral Infections: Real World Evidence from the Urgent Care Setting

Antibiotic overuse and underuse are prevalent in urgent care settings, driven in part by diagnostic uncertainty. A host-based test for distinguishing bacterial and viral infections (MeMed BV) has been clinically validated previously. Here we examined how BV impacts antibiotic prescription in a real-...

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Main Authors: Boaz Kalmovich, Daniella Rahamim-Cohen, Shirley Shapiro Ben David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
Series:Biomedicines
Subjects:
antibiotics
host response
diagnostics
uncertainty
bacterial
viral
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/5/1498

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https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/5/1498

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