Evidenced-based guidelines for management of infants and children with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) were prepared by an expert panel comprising clinicians and …

Opinion statement Antimicrobial stewardship is a new field that struggles to find the right
balance between meaningful and useful metrics to study the impact of antimicrobial …

There is broad interest in improved methods to generate robust evidence regarding best
practice, especially in settings where patient conditions are heterogenous and require …

Purpose Severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) is associated with high morbidity
and mortality, and whilst European and non-European guidelines are available for …

Los antimicrobianos son fármacos distintos al resto. Su eficacia en la reducción de la
morbilidad y la mortalidad es muy superior a la de otros grupos de medicamentos. Por otra …

Question Is broad-spectrum antibiotic use associated with poor outcomes in community-
onset pneumonia after adjusting for confounders? Methods We performed a retrospective …

Die vorliegende Leitlinie umfasst ein neues und aktualisiertes Konzept der Behandlung und
Prävention von erwachsenen Patienten mit ambulant erworbener Pneumonie und löst die …

Intensive care units (ICUs) are an appropriate focus of antibiotic stewardship program efforts
because a large proportion of any hospital's use of parenteral antibiotics, especially broad …

Background: Troponins may be elevated in patients with pneumonia, but associations with
myocardial infarction (MI) and with platelet activation are still undefined. Objectives: The aim …

Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (eg, cough, fever, pleuritic
chest pain) and by lung imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial …