Community-acquired pneumonia

TM File - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
This seminar reviews important features and management issues of community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) that are especially relevant to immunocompetent adults in light of new …

BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009

WS Lim, SV Baudouin, RC George, AT Hill… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
SYNOPSIS OF RECOMMENDATIONS A summary of the initial management of patients
admitted to hospital with suspected community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is presented in …

Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults

LA Mandell, RG Wunderink, A Anzueto… - Clinical infectious …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Improving the care of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been
the focus of many different organizations, and several have developed guidelines for …

Analysis and prediction of unplanned intensive care unit readmission using recurrent neural networks with long short-term memory

YW Lin, Y Zhou, F Faghri, MJ Shaw, RH Campbell - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Unplanned readmission of a hospitalized patient is an indicator of patients'
exposure to risk and an avoidable waste of medical resources. In addition to hospital …

Update of practice guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adults

LA Mandell, JG Bartlett, SF Dowell… - Clinical Infectious …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) produced guidelines for community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) in immunocompetent adults in 1998 and again in 2000 [1, 2] …

Behandlung von erwachsenen Patienten mit ambulant erworbener Pneumonie und Prävention–Update 2016

S Ewig, G Höffken, WV Kern, G Rohde, H Flick… - …, 2016 - thieme-connect.com
Die vorliegende Leitlinie umfasst ein neues und aktualisiertes Konzept der Behandlung und
Prävention von erwachsenen Patienten mit ambulant erworbener Pneumonie und löst die …

Make vital signs great again–A call for action

J Kellett, F Sebat - European journal of internal medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Vital signs are the simplest, cheapest and probably the most important information gathered
on patients in hospital. In this narrative review we present a large amount of evidence that …

Hospital readmission from post-acute care facilities: risk factors, timing, and outcomes

RE Burke, EA Whitfield, D Hittle, S Min, C Levy… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives Hospital discharges to post-acute care (PAC) facilities have increased rapidly.
This increase may lead to more hospital readmissions from PAC facilities, which are …

Effect of a 3-step critical pathway to reduce duration of intravenous antibiotic therapy and length of stay in community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized controlled …

J Carratalà, C Garcia-Vidal, L Ortega… - Archives of internal …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Background The length of hospital stay (LOS) for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
varies considerably, even though this factor has a major impact on the cost of care. We …

Management of community-acquired pneumonia

EA Halm, AS Teirstein - New England Journal of Medicine, 2002 - Mass Medical Soc
A 65-year old man with hypertension and degenerative joint disease presents to the
emergency department with a three-day history of a productive cough and fever. His …