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Advances in community-acquired pneumonia

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2020
Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the commonest and deadliest of the infectious diseases, yet our understanding of it remains relatively poor. The recently published American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America Community ...
Barbara Jones, Grant Waterer
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Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020
Although pneumonia caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is a prominent feature of COVID-19, clinicians must consider whether treatment for additional potential causes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is appropriate. The cochairs
J. Metlay, G. Waterer
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A systematic scoping review of metrics utilized to measure antibiotic consumption in hospital settings

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs were introduced to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials and to combat antimicrobial resistance. Quantifying antibiotic consumption is an important part of AMS initiatives to achieve these objectives.
Marjan Kandimahforoujaki, Kiplin A. Patanwala, Jan‐Willem C. Alffenaar, Asad E. Patanwala   +3 more
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MODERN ANTIBACTERIAL THERAPY IN HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA

Медицинский совет, 2017
Hospital-acquired pneumonia terminologically unites all types of pneumonia that arise in hospitalized patients: pneumonia in patients beyond artificial lungs ventilation (hospital pneumonia, medical aid-associated pneumonia) and hospital acquired ...
V. B. Beloborodov, V. A. Sinikin
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Challenges in severe community-acquired pneumonia: a point-of-view review

Intensive Care Medicine, 2019
PurposeSevere community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) is still associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. In this point-of-view review paper, a group of experts discuss the main controversies in SCAP: the role of severity scores to guide patient ...
A. Torres, J. Chalmers, Charles S Dela Cruz, C. Dominedò, M. Kollef, I. Martín-Loeches, M. Niederman, R. Wunderink   +7 more
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The integration of the British Pharmacological Society's prescription safety assessment into the WHO 6‐step model of rational pharmacotherapy in a Turkish medical school

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims At Koç University School of Medicine, a one‐week rational pharmacotherapy (RPHM) programme, modelled after WHO 6‐step, has been introduced in the fourth‐year curriculum to improve prescription skills. For efficient problem‐based learning (PBL) sessions on a prespecified topic, students need to brush up on basic pharmacology knowledge, so we ...
Sinem Ezgi Gülmez, Gülnihal Özcan, Hakan S. Orer   +2 more
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Serotypes and antibiotic susceptibility of isolated from hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia in Italy

SAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Background: Pneumonia remain an important public health problem. The primary objective was to determine the proportion of community-acquired pneumonia that is attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection; secondary objectives were the description ...
Marta Di Pasquale, Stefano Aliberti, Chara Azzari, Maria Moriondo, Francesco Nieddu, Francesco Blasi, Marco Mantero   +6 more
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Pneumonia severity index compared to CURB-65 in predicting the outcome of community acquired pneumonia among patients referred to an Iranian emergency department: a prospective survey

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013
Objective: To compare the prognostic value of the pneumonia severity index and the severity score for community-acquired pneumonia (CURB-65) in predicting mortality and the need for ICU admission of patients with community-acquired pneumonia referred to ...
Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam, Hooman Bakhshi, Bareza Rezaei, Patricia Khashayar   +3 more
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Computed Tomography for the Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Severity of Community-acquired Pneumonia in the Elderly.

Internal medicine, 2016
OBJECTIVE We herein assessed the utility of computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis and ascertainment of the severity of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly.
T. Haga, Mizuki Fukuoka, Mizuo Morita, Kohei Cho, K. Tatsumi   +4 more
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Clinical pharmacology and prescribing education: An updated medical school curriculum from the British Pharmacological Society

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Prescribing is a complex, essential skill that doctors must acquire to practice medicine safely and effectively. The British Pharmacological Society has historically provided a core curriculum to guide clinical pharmacology and prescribing education in UK medical schools.
Dagan O. Lonsdale, Clare Guilding, Jennifer Koenig, Michael Okorie, Reecha Sofat, Simon Maxwell   +5 more
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