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Community-acquired pneumonia causes great mortality and morbidity and high costs
worldwide. Empirical selection of antibiotic treatment is the cornerstone of management of …

Importance To better guide strategies intended to reduce high rates of 30-day readmission
after hospitalization for heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (MI), or pneumonia …

Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17 (Suppl. 6): E1–E59 Abstract This document is an update of
Guidelines published in 2005 and now includes scientific publications through to May 2010 …

Under the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a variety of transitional care programs and services
have been established to improve quality and reduce costs. These programs help …

Although traditionally regarded as a disease confined to the lungs, acute pneumonia has
important effects on the cardiovascular system at all severities of infection. Pneumonia tends …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Readmission and mortality after hospitalization for community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) and heart failure (HF) are publically reported. This systematic …

Context Published rates of health care utilization and rehospitalization by people with sickle
cell disease have had limited generalizability and are not population based. Objective To …

To determine the burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) affecting adults in North
America, a comprehensive literature review was conducted to examine the incidence …

Objective To examine the relationship between community factors and hospital readmission
rates. Data Sources/Study Setting We examined all hospitals with publicly reported 30-day …