TY - JOUR
T1 - Relative efficacy of cefuroxime versus dicloxacillin as definitive antimicrobial therapy in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
T2 - A propensity-score adjusted retrospective cohort study
AU - Rasmussen, Jon Bjarke
AU - Knudsen, Jenny Dahl
AU - Arpi, Magnus
AU - Schønheyder, Henrik Carl
AU - Benfield, Thomas
AU - Ostergaard, Christian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The objective of the present study was to compare the efficacy of cefuroxime with that of dicloxacillin as definitive antimicrobial therapy in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (MS-SAB) using a Danish bacteraemia database, information on the indication for antimicrobial therapy, multivariate adjustment and propensity score (PS) matching.
AB - The objective of the present study was to compare the efficacy of cefuroxime with that of dicloxacillin as definitive antimicrobial therapy in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (MS-SAB) using a Danish bacteraemia database, information on the indication for antimicrobial therapy, multivariate adjustment and propensity score (PS) matching.
U2 - 10.1093/jac/dkt375
DO - 10.1093/jac/dkt375
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24078468
SN - 0305-7453
VL - 69
SP - 506
EP - 514
JO - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
JF - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
IS - 2
ER -