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De‐escalation of antimicrobial treatment for adults with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (61st percentile)

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Title
De‐escalation of antimicrobial treatment for adults with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd007934.pub3
Pubmed ID
Authors

Brenda NG Silva, Régis B Andriolo, Álvaro N Atallah, Reinaldo Salomão

Abstract

Mortality rates among patients with sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock are highly variable throughout different regions or services and can be upwards of 50%. Empirical broad-spectrum antimicrobial treatment is aimed at achieving adequate antimicrobial therapy, thus reducing mortality; however, there is a risk that empirical broad-spectrum antimicrobial treatment can expose patients to overuse of antimicrobials. De-escalation has been proposed as a strategy to replace empirical broad-spectrum antimicrobial treatment by using a narrower antimicrobial therapy. This is done by reviewing the patient's microbial culture results and then making changes to the pharmacological agent or discontinuing a pharmacological combination.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 275 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 38 14%
Student > Master 30 11%
Researcher 26 9%
Student > Postgraduate 24 9%
Other 22 8%
Other 71 25%
Unknown 68 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 131 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 15 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 2%
Other 27 10%
Unknown 74 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 11 June 2016.
All research outputs
#2,669,845
of 25,595,500 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#5,343
of 13,156 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,567
of 210,810 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#83
of 214 outputs
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