Study design and participants
pneumonia, urinary tract infection
SOFT TISSUE INFECTION, WEST, PNEUMONIA, URINARY TRACT INFECTION
This is a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial and performed in four hospitals in Amsterdam and Amstelveen, the Netherlands (Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, OLVG East location, OLVG West location, Amstelland Hospital). The study is registered at EudraCT (All patients who were newly admitted to the internal and pulmonary medicine wards of the above-named hospitals were screened for inclusion according to the following inclusion criteria: a primary clinical diagnosis of pneumonia, or an invasive urinary tract infection or a soft tissue infection; age above 18 years, hospitalisation for at least 24 h and having received at least one dose of antibiotics. Patients were excluded in case of active malignancy, a platelet count below 120*10