What did the researchers do and find?
pneumonia
PNEUMONIA
In this randomised trial of 294 patients admitted with suspected pneumonia, POC did not result in the prescription of less antibiotics or less broad-spectrum antibiotics within 4 h after admission.Based on a subset of patients, the results indicated that more patients in the POC-group were treated with targeted or appropriate antibiotics 48 h and 5 days after admission.Patients in the POC-group had a non-statistically significant reduction in length of hospital stay of approximately 1 day.