Shorter versus longer durations of antibiotic treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Gordon Guyatt,
• Arnav Agarwal,
• Mark Loeb,
• John Basmaji,
• Ya Gao,
• Maryam Ghadimi,
• Layla Bakaa,
• Luis Enrique Colunga Lozano,
• Saad Asif,
• Aninditee Das

Affiliations

Gordon Guyatt

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Arnav Agarwal

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mark Loeb

methodologist, infectious disease physician

John Basmaji

Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Ya Gao

3 Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People`s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Maryam Ghadimi

methodologist

Layla Bakaa

Faculty of Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Luis Enrique Colunga Lozano

Department of Clinical Medicine, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Saad Asif

Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Aninditee Das

Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada