Antibiotic treatment and survival of nursing home patients with lower respiratory tract infection
Studies
2
Assess the effects of different antibiotic treatment strategies on survival of elderly nursing home residents with lower respiratory tract infections in the United States and the Netherlands, where treatment approaches are quite different.
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General Information
- Types of cohorts
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- Patient/disease cohort
- Countries
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- Netherlands
- United States of America
- Setting
- International
- Funding
- Grants from the National Institute on Aging(US), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(US), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(US), Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport(Netherlands) and the Society ‘Het Zonnehuis’(Netherlands)
- Criteria of cohort's to be included
- Cohorts that the researchers recruited in previous research projects.
- Health topic
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- Ageing
- Respiratory diseases
- Socio-environmental context
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- Other : Nursing homes
Participants
Number of participants
- Total
- 1,221
- With harmonized data
- 1,221
Age range of the samples
- Minimum age
- 70
Methodology for harmonization and integration
- Strategy of harmonization
- Ex-post
- Data processing methods
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- NA
- Type of infrastructure
- Data are in different locations
- Integrative data analysis
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- Pooled analyses
- Software
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- SAS
- Supplementary information
- Kruse RL et al. Antibiotic treatment and survival of nursing home patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a cross-national analysis. Ann Fam Med. 2005 Sep-Oct;3(5):422-9
Number of cohorts
- Total
- 2
- With harmonized data
- 2
- Will more cohorts be harmonized?
- Number of harmonized variables (max.)
- 40
Access
- Availability of metadata
- Availability of individual data
Individual Studies
| Acronym | Name | Study design | Participants | Countries |
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| Mehr_Jama_2001 | Missouri Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Study | Patients' cohort | 1,044 | |
| van der Steen_Med Decis Making_2005 | Dutch Pneumonia Study | Patients' cohort | 415 |