Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections

BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network; Nick Daneman; Asgar Rishu; Ruxandra Pinto; Benajmin A Rogers; Yahya Shehabi; Rachael Parke; Deborah Cook; Yaseen Arabi; John Muscedere; Steven Reynolds; Richard Hall; Dhiraj B Dwivedi; Colin McArthur; Shay McGuinness; Dafna Yahav; Bryan Coburn; Anna Geagea; Pavani Das; Phillip Shin; Michael Detsky; Andrew Morris; Michael Fralick; Jeff E Powis; Christopher Kandel; Wendy Sligl; Sean M Bagshaw; Nishma Singhal; Emilie Belley-Cote; Richard Whitlock; Kosar Khwaja; Susan Morpeth; Alex Kazemi; Anthony Williams; Derek R MacFadden; Lauralyn McIntyre; Jennifer Tsang; Francois Lamontagne; Alex Carignan; John Marshall; Jan O Friedrich; Robert Cirone; Mark Downing; Christopher Graham; Joshua Davis; Erick Duan; John Neary; Gerald Evans; Basem Alraddadi; Sameera Al Johani; Claudio Martin; Sameer Elsayed; Ian Ball; Francois Lauzier; Alexis Turgeon; Henry T Stelfox; John Conly; Emily G McDonald; Todd C Lee; Richard Sullivan; Jennifer Grant; Ilya Kagan; Paul Young; Cassie Lawrence; Kevin O'Callaghan; Matthew Eustace; Keat Choong; Pierre Aslanian; Ulrike Buehner; Tom Havey; Alexandra Binnie; Josef Prazak; Brenda Reeve; Edward Litton; Sylvain Lother; Anand Kumar; Ryan Zarychanski; Tomer Hoffman; David Paterson; Peter Daley; Robert J Commons; Emmanuel Charbonney; Jean-Francois Naud; Sally Roberts; Ravindranath Tiruvoipati; Sachin Gupta; Gordon Wood; Omar Shum; Spiros Miyakis; Peter Dodek; Clement Kwok; Robert A Fowler

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2404991

Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections

N Engl J Med. 2024 Nov 20. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404991. Online ahead of print.

Authors

BALANCE Investigators, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada Clinical Research Network, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group, and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network; Nick Daneman¹, Asgar Rishu¹, Ruxandra Pinto¹, Benajmin A Rogers¹, Yahya Shehabi¹, Rachael Parke¹, Deborah Cook¹, Yaseen Arabi¹, John Muscedere¹, Steven Reynolds¹, Richard Hall¹, Dhiraj B Dwivedi¹, Colin McArthur¹, Shay McGuinness¹, Dafna Yahav¹, Bryan Coburn¹, Anna Geagea¹, Pavani Das