The Short versus Long Antibiotic Course for Pleural Infection Management (SLIM) randomised controlled open-label trial.

Maged Hassan Mohamed Gad-AllahBasma El-ShaarawyAsmaa M El-ShazlyCyrus DaneshvarAhmed S Sadaka

Published in: ERJ open research (2023)

In medically treated adult patients with pleural infection a long course of antimicrobial therapy did not lead to fewer treatment failures compared with a shorter course. These findings need to be confirmed in a larger multicentre trial.

Keyphrases

study protocol
open label
phase iii
clinical trial
phase ii
randomized controlled trial
double blind
staphylococcus aureus
phase ii study
placebo controlled
combination therapy