Empiric Antibiotic Prescribing for Suspected Sepsis: A Stewardship Balancing Act. The American journal of the medical sciences 360(6): 613-614.

The optimal approach to empiric antibiotic prescribing for suspected sepsis in the emergency department (ED), specifically timing and spectrum of therapy, is a matter of significant ongoing controversy.1 −3 The debate hinges on interpretation of the ratio between benefit from prompt, active antibiotic therapy for patients with bacterial sepsis and the established societal (e.g. selective pressure towards bacterial resistance) and patient level harms associated with unnecessary antibiotic therapy ( e.g. adverse drug reactions, Clostridiodes difficile infection).
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