In children developing mild or moderate pneumonia at home, is three days of antibiotics enough? Evidence Update, Child Health Series, December 2009.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2009

• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Health

Abstract

Each Evidence Update is a 2-page summary of a Cochrane Review of healthcare interventions relevant to people in low-income and middle-income countries.

This Update is adapted from Haider BA, Saeed MA, Bhutta ZA. Short-course versus long-course antibiotic therapy for non-severe community-acquired pneumonia in children aged 2 months to 59 months. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD005976. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005976.pub2.

Three days of antibiotics is as effective as longer treatments for mild and moderate community-acquired pneumonia.

Citation

Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium (EHCRC), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, 2 pp.

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In children developing mild or moderate pneumonia at home, is three days of antibiotics enough? Evidence Update, Child Health Series, December 2009.

Published 1 January 2009