Prophylactic antibiotics after acute stroke for reducing pneumonia in patients with dysphagia (STROKE-INF): A prospective, cluster-randomised, open-label, masked endpoint, controlled clinical trial

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10006, 2015, Pages 1835-1844

  Kalra, Lalit ^a   Irshad, Saddif ^a   Hodsoll, John ^a,e   Simpson, Matthew ^b   Gulliford, Martin ^c   Smithard, David ^d   Patel, Anita ^a   Rebollo Mesa, Irene ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84947046519     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00126-9     Document Type: Article

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