Among patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia in Georgia and Tennessee, 14% had pneumococcal pneumonia.

Hospitalization for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can lead to long-term health problems that persist months after discharge, according to new research published in BMC Infectious Diseases.

In a recent multicenter prospective study conducted at three hospitals in Tennessee and Georgia, including Vanderbilt ...

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

Secondary Source The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Source Reference: Waterer G "Macrolides in community-acquired pneumonia" Lancet Respir Med 2024; DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600 (23)00434-4.

Pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia spent less time in the hospital and receiving IV antibiotics when visited by a medical clown, according to a presentation at the European ...

Finally, because older patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) typically experience worse health outcomes, here may be an increased tendency to rapidly diagnose and treat presumed CAP ...

Of 9036 patients included in this PMS, 1467 had a primary diagnosis of CAP. A total of 752 (51.3%) patients with CAP were male and 694 (47.3%) were female. Information regarding gender was missing ...

HONOLULU — The risk for all-cause mortality was reduced among patients with community-acquired pneumonia who used hydrocortisone vs. other corticosteroids, according to a poster presented at the ...

Two people have died and another 58 remain ill amid an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease  in Harlem, a borough of New York ...

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If we compare our results with those recently reported by Jackson et al [14] in a population-based cohort study that evaluated the incidence of CAP among 46,237 elderly individuals in Washington ...