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Short‐course versus long‐course intravenous therapy with the same antibiotic for severe community‐acquired pneumonia in children aged two months to 59 months

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2017
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Title
Short‐course versus long‐course intravenous therapy with the same antibiotic for severe community‐acquired pneumonia in children aged two months to 59 months
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, October 2017
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd008032.pub3
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Authors

Zohra S Lassi, Aamer Imdad, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

Abstract

Pneumonia is a leading cause of childhood mortality from infectious disease, responsible for an estimated 1.3 million deaths annually in children under five years of age, many of which are in low-income countries. The World Health Organization recommends intravenous antibiotics for five days as first-line treatment for children with severe pneumonia. Although controversy exists regarding the specific clinical features used to diagnose pneumonia, the criteria for diagnosis of severe pneumonia are better defined and are widely used to triage children for referral and second-line therapy.In 2011 it was estimated that approximately 120 million new cases of pneumonia occur globally each year in children under five years of age, of which 14 million become severe episodes. Hospitalisation for severe pneumonia in children places a significant burden on both patients and their families, including substantial expense, loss of routine, and decrease in quality of life. By reducing the duration of hospital treatment, healthcare burdens could potentially be reduced and treatment compliance may improve.This is an update of a review published in 2015. To evaluate the efficacy of short-course (two to three days) versus long-course (five days) intravenous therapy (alone or in combination with oral antibiotics) with the same antibiotic for severe community-acquired pneumonia in children aged two months to 59 months. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2016, Issue 12), MEDLINE (1966 to December week 3, 2016), Embase (1974 to 22 December 2016), and four trials registers (23 August 2017), together with reference checking of all relevant trials and reviews. Randomised controlled trials evaluating the efficacy of short-course (two to three days) versus long-course (five days) intravenous antibiotic therapy (alone or in combination with oral antibiotics) for severe pneumonia in children aged two months to 59 months. We excluded children with any other debilitating disease, including those infected with HIV. We also excluded children who had developed pneumonia during their hospital stay (i.e. with nosocomial infection). There was no restriction on the type of antibiotic used, the dose, or the frequency of dosing. We used standard methodological procedures expected by Cochrane. Our searches identified 4295 records, however no studies met our predefined inclusion criteria. We identified no randomised controlled trials comparing a short course (two to three days) of intravenous antibiotics compared to a long course (five days) for severe pneumonia in children aged two months to 59 months that met our inclusion criteria.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Unknown 204 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 10%
Student > Bachelor 20 10%
Other 14 7%
Researcher 14 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 5%
Other 32 16%
Unknown 94 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 56 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 8%
Psychology 6 3%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 2%
Other 15 7%
Unknown 100 49%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 November 2018.
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#1,659,952
of 25,461,852 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3,552
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Outputs of similar age
#32,734
of 333,883 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#80
of 190 outputs
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