RESEARCH Open Access 7 versus 14 days of antibiotic treatment for critically ill patients with bloodstream infection: a pilot randomized clinical trial Nick Daneman 1* , Asgar H. Rishu 2 , Ruxandra Pinto 2 , Pierre Aslanian 3 , Sean M. Bagshaw 4 , Alex Carignan 5 , Emmanuel Charbonney 6 , Bryan Coburn 7 , Deborah J. Cook 8 , Michael E. Detsky 9 , Peter Dodek 10 , Richard Hall 11 , Anand Kumar 12 , Francois Lamontagne 13 , Francois Lauzier 14 , John C. Marshall 15 , Claudio M. Martin 16 , Lauralyn McIntyre 17 , John Muscedere 18 , Steven Reynolds 19 , Wendy Sligl 4 , Henry T. Stelfox 20 , M. Elizabeth Wilcox 21 , Robert A. Fowler 22 and on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group Abstract Background: Shorter-duration antibiotic treatment is sufficient for a range of bacterial infec

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