Pneumonia in children - how long should we treat? The CAP-IT study.

Children commonly receive antibiotics for chest infections. Unfortunately our diagnostics tools aren't great at discriminating between bacterial and viral infections. The CAP-IT study was recently published which looked at the question of how long we should be treating for, and what dose of amoxicillin we should be using.
Here's everything you need to know about it.
00:00 Intro
00:35 Study basics
00:45 Patients
01:47 Intervention
02:15 Results
04:06 CASP checklist
DFTB CAP-IT summary: dontforgetthebubbles.com/cap-it/
Bielicki et al CAP-IT paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
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