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Procalcitonin and lung ultrasonography point-of-care testing to decide on antibiotic prescription in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care: protocol of a pragmatic cluster randomized trial

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0898-3

Published Online: 2019-08-06

Published Print: 2019-12

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Authors

Lhopitallier, Loïc http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-801X
Kronenberg, Andreas

Meuwly, Jean-Yves

Locatelli, Isabella

Dubois, Julie

Marti, Joachim

Mueller, Yolanda

Senn, Nicolas

D’Acremont, Valérie

Boillat-Blanco, Noémie
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (407240_167133/1)
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Article History

Received: 20 February 2019

Accepted: 15 July 2019

First Online: 6 August 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The ethics committee of cantons Vaud and Bern in Switzerland approved the protocol under the number 2017–01246. This approval covers all study sites. Written consent will be obtained from all study participants.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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