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From: Strategies of initiation and streamlining of antibiotic therapy in 41 French intensive care units

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Number and proportions of patients included in the study according to their antimicrobial therapy status. During their intensive care unit stay: (I) Patients never receiving any antimicrobial agents; (II) patients suspected of having bacterial infection and already receiving antibiotic treatment at the time of admission; (III) patients receiving antibiotic therapy for a known infection with identification and susceptibility testing of the pathogen at the time of admission; (IV) patients receiving new antibiotic therapy for suspicion of infection during their ICU stay.

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