Clinical Outcomes of Failing to Dose-Reduce Cephalosporin Antibiotics in Older Adults with CKD.

CONCLUSIONS: In this study we failed to demonstrate any association between the dose of cephalosporin antibiotic administered to elderly patients with CKD and the risk of side-effects leading to hospitalization, treatment failure, or mortality.
PMID: 30630861 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - January 10, 2019 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Bathini L, Jandoc R, Kuwornu P, McArthur E, Weir MA, Sood MM, Battistella M, Muanda FT, Liu A, Jain AK, Garg AX Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research