Corticosteroid therapy for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

RAC Siemieniuk, MO Meade… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is common and often severe. Purpose:
To examine the effect of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy on mortality, morbidity, and …

The management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: clinical practice guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious …

JS Bradley, CL Byington, SS Shah… - Clinical infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Evidenced-based guidelines for management of infants and children with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) were prepared by an expert panel comprising clinicians and …

Excess antibiotic treatment duration and adverse events in patients hospitalized with pneumonia: a multihospital cohort study

VM Vaughn, SA Flanders, A Snyder… - Annals of internal …, 2019 - acpjournals.org
Background: Randomized trials demonstrate no benefit from antibiotic treatment exceeding
the shortest effective duration. Objective: To examine predictors and outcomes associated …

Current and emerging Legionella diagnostics for laboratory and outbreak investigations

JW Mercante, JM Winchell - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Legionnaires' disease (LD) is an often severe and potentially fatal form of bacterial
pneumonia caused by an extensive list of Legionella species. These ubiquitous freshwater …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for the management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia: diagnosis, assessment of severity, antimicrobial therapy, and prevention

MS Niederman, LA Mandell, A Anzueto… - American journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
This document is an update of the original 1993 statement on community-acquired
pneumonia, incorporating new information about bacteriology, patient stratification …

Effect of procalcitonin-guided treatment on antibiotic use and outcome in lower respiratory tract infections: cluster-randomised, single-blinded intervention trial

M Christ-Crain, D Jaccard-Stolz, R Bingisser… - The Lancet, 2004 - thelancet.com
Background Lower respiratory tract infections are often treated with antibiotics without
evidence of clinically relevant bacterial disease. Serum calcitonin precursor concentrations …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation a nomogram for predicting the risk of severe COVID-19: A multi-center study in Sichuan, China

Y Zhou, Y He, H Yang, H Yu, T Wang, Z Chen, R Yao… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in
Wuhan and spread across the globe. The objective of this study is to build and validate a …

Community-acquired pneumonia in children

K McIntosh - New England Journal of Medicine, 2002 - Mass Medical Soc
Pneumonia remains a common and potentially serious infection in children. This review
summarizes the problems involved in making the diagnosis and establishing a cause and …

Antibiotic prescription rates for acute respiratory tract infections in US ambulatory settings

CG Grijalva, JP Nuorti, MR Griffin - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Context During the 1990s, antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infection (ARTI)
decreased in the United States. The sustainability of those changes is unknown. Objective …