Antibiotic duration for bacteremia is something most of us learned by habit, not by trial data. In this episode, we walk through the BALANCE trial and use it as a lens to revisit how 1) host, 2) organism, and 3) source should guide treatment. When shorter really is enough, and when it isn’t?
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🔹 Transcript and Shownotes
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(02:58) | Host, Organism, Source: The Core Framework Behind Duration
(09:02) | How Evidence Shifted Practice
(11:27) | The BALANCE Trial: Short-Course vs Standard-Course Therapy
(18:55) | Where does this leave us?
Tags: CoreIM, Internal Medicine, Infectious disease, Evidence-Based Medicine, Clinical Reasoning, Hospital Medicine, Medical Education
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