Intravenous and broad-spectrum antibiotics are used more commonly in Black and non-Hispanic Black pediatric inpatients than ...

Pneumonia is common and typically treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics, so hospitalized patients with pneumonia are at increased risk for developing a C. diff infection. The study, by U.S ...

A recent narrative review describes how to identify and manage pneumonia that does not respond to antibiotic treatment.

For those who have mild or non-severe COVID-19 and low suspicion of bacterial infection, the WHO strongly recommends against ...

Source Reference: Bai AD, et al "Anaerobic antibiotic coverage in aspiration pneumonia and the associated benefits and harms: a retrospective cohort study" CHEST 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2024.02 ...

Source Reference: Gohil SK, et al "Stewardship prompts to improve antibiotic selection for pneumonia: the INSPIRE randomized clinical trial" JAMA 2024; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.6248.

Short-Course vs Prolonged-Course Antibiotic Therapy for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Critically Ill Adults Pugh R, Grant C, Cooke RPD, Dempsey G Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;10:CD007577 ...

Among hospitalized pneumonia patients, screening for MRSA colonization with a nasal swab-based rapid PCR test cut duration of ...

New research out of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., suggests hospitals treating children with community-acquired pneumonia are doing a better job of using antibiotics that are less ...

Among patients with pneumonia, the trial showed that clinicians using CPOE prompts saw a 28.4% reduction in in empiric extended-spectrum days of therapy (rate ratio = 0.72; 95% CI, 0.66-0.78 ...

Children who have coughs that go on for weeks may have a type of walking pneumonia that’s been surging in the U.S. this year, and they may need a different antibiotic regimen to treat it ...