The cost impact of PCT-guided antibiotic stewardship versus usual care for hospitalised patients with suspected sepsis or lower respiratory tract infections in the US: A health economic model analysis

• Janne C. Mewes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Panaxea B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Michael S. Pulia,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Michael K. Mansour,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Michael R. Broyles,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Laboratory Services, Five Rivers Medical Center, Pocahontas, AR, United States of America

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• H. Bryant Nguyen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Hyperbaric and Sleep Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, United States of America

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• Lotte M. Steuten

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lsteuten@fredhutch.org

  Affiliations Panaxea B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Seattle, WA, United States of America, University of Washington, School of Pharmacy, the CHOICE Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5688-236X

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