Appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy and mortality: Conflicting data explained by residual confounding

• Romy Schuttevaer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Romy Schuttevaer, Jelmer Alsma

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8589-4650

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• Jelmer Alsma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Romy Schuttevaer, Jelmer Alsma

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2808-1514

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• Anniek Brink,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Willian van Dijk,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6314-9326

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• Jurriaan E. M. de Steenwinkel,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Hester F. Lingsma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Damian C. Melles,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Meander MC, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

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• Stephanie C. E. Schuit

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.schuit@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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