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General Internal Medicine • Infectious Disease • Pulmonology • Critical Care • Hospital Medicine • Primary Care • General Primary Care • General Hospital Medicine
What is your preferred laboratory test to assess treatment response or infection resolution in patients with bacterial pneumonia?
For example, do you find trending WBC, procalcitonin, CRP, etc., more or less helpful?
Answer from: at Community Practice
I don't generally check a laboratory test to assess resolution. I go more by their improved clinical status and seeing them get back to baseline oxygen status. If I am trending a WBC or procal, I do like to see it trend down, but it's not the only lab I hang my hat on to decide if someone has resolv...
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