Claudia Gregoriano

TL;DR: Correct inhalation of prescribed medication is associated with improved health status and lung function and should encourage health professionals to provide instructions on correct inhalation technique and to regularly re-evaluate the patients’ inhalation techniques.

TL;DR: Blood infection marker procalcitonin (PCT) helps in guiding antibiotic use in patients with respiratory infection and sepsis by limiting initiation and by shortening treatment duration and is the best studied biomarker regarding antibiotic stewardship.

TL;DR: Markers of disease progression such as inflammatory markers, markers for shock and impaired respiratory function provided the most prognostic information regarding severe COVID-19 progression in the sample.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association of MR-proADM levels with in-hospital mortality in logistic regression and discrimination analyses, and showed that an increase of 1 nmol/L was independently associated with a more than fivefold increase in inhospital mortality (adjusted odds ratio of 5.5, 95% confidence interval 1.4-21.4).

TL;DR: Participants assigned to the intervention group had significantly better taking and timing adherence of inhaled medication resulting in a trend towards a decreased frequency of exacerbations, but no effect on time to next exacerbation was observed.