Confounding by indication of the safety of de-escalation in community-acquired pneumonia: A simulation study embedded in a prospective cohort

• Inger van Heijl ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Ivanheijl@tergooi.nl

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Tergooi hospital, Hilversum, The Netherlands, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0160-715X

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• Valentijn A. Schweitzer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• C. H. Edwin Boel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Jan Jelrik Oosterheert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine & Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Susanne M. Huijts,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Wendelien Dorigo-Zetsma,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Tergooi hospital, Hilversum, The Netherlands

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• Paul D. van der Linden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Tergooi hospital, Hilversum, The Netherlands

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• Marc J. M. Bonten,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Cornelis H. van Werkhoven

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

  Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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