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Spec, A., Mejia-Chew, C., Powderly, W. G., & Cornely, O. A. (2018). EQUAL . Open forum infectious diseases, 5(11), ofy299. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy299
Spec, Andrej, et al. "EQUAL ." Open forum infectious diseases vol. 5,11 (2018): ofy299. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy299
Spec A, Mejia-Chew C, Powderly WG, Cornely OA. EQUAL . Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 12;5(11):ofy299. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy299. eCollection 2018 Nov. PMID: 30515434; PMCID: PMC6262117.
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Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Nov 12;5(11):ofy299. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy299. eCollection 2018 Nov.

EQUAL .

Open forum infectious diseases

Andrej Spec, Carlos Mejia-Chew, William G Powderly, Oliver A Cornely

Affiliations

  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  2. Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), and Clinical Trials Centre Cologne (ZKS Köln), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

PMID: 30515434 PMCID: PMC6262117 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofy299

Abstract

Cryptococcocis is an opportunistic fungal infection with high morbidity and mortality. Guidelines to aid clinicians regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment can be extensive and challenging to comply with. There is no tool to measure guideline adherence. To create such a tool, we reviewed current guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the World Health Organization, the American Society of Transplantation, and recent significant publications to select the strongest recommendations as vital components of our scoring tool. Items included diagnostic tests (blood, tissue, and cerebrospinal fluid cultures,

Keywords: Cryptococcus; fungal infection; guideline adherence; score; therapy

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