Is Short-Term Antimicrobial Administration Sufficient? The Need for Considering Information on Infection-Related Variables and the Target Population

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Nijigaoka Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
• ² Department of General Internal Medicine, Iwate Prefectural Isawa Hospital, Iwate, Japan.
• ³ Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Island and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of General Internal Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.