Background: Community-acquired pneumonia is a common disease with a large economic
burden. We assessed clinical practices and outcomes among patients with community …

BACKGROUND: Patients admitted to Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British
Columbia, with a primary diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) have a mean …

Aims: To identify variation in the management of community‐acquired pneumonia between
two New Zealand hospitals and the factors that may account for any differences. Methods: A …

OBJECTIVE: To compare outcomes of care and antibiotic utilization for community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) throughout a group of not-for-profit hospitals. METHODS: A retrospective …

Recently published guidelines permit the decision to treat patients with community-acquired
pneumonia on an outpatient basis to be made more confidently than in the past. In most …

Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with significant morbidity, mortality and
utilization of health care resources. While the reported incidence of pneumonia has been …

To investigate the management of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
treated in hospital in Sweden, a multicentre retrospective cohort study was performed with …

We did a retrospective study of 1920 episodes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in
27 community hospitals and analysed inter-hospital variability in length of hospital stay …

BACKGROUND: To asses the incidence, patterns of care, and outcomes of community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the population of a defined geographic area. METHODS …

Purpose: We developed a pneumonia guideline at Intermountain Health Care that included
admission decision support and recommendations for antibiotic timing and selection, based …