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Recent publications have demonstrated that strategies for early transition to oral antibiotics achieve equal or better outcomes for common inpatient infections and are safer than prolonged intravenous antibiotics in children. The use of intravenous lines such as peripherally inserted central catheters, which are often necessary for prolonged intravenous antibiotics, can lead to complications such as thrombosis or line infections. Antibiotic courses with predetermined durations are often not based on high-quality evidence and ignore individual response to treatments, which can vary significantly from patient to patient. Once a patient is able to tolerate them, early transition to oral antibiotics, based on individual patient clinical responses such as defervescence and other symptoms and signs of improvement, are patient and family centered and can improve the value of care for hospitalized children.