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From: Gram stain-guided antibiotic choice: a GRACEful method to safely restrict overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotic agents

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Algorithm of Gram stain-guided antibiotic choice. *Patients with any of the following conditions considered at high risk: antimicrobial therapy in preceding 90 days, hospital stay of 96 h or longer, chronic dialysis, immunosuppressive disease or therapy, nursing home admission, septic shock at time of ventilator-associated pneumonia or colonising MDR pathogens. GPB Gram-positive bacilli, GPC Gram-positive cocci, GNR Gram-negative rods, MDR multidrug-resistant, MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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