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St. Luke's Medical Center: Bottom-Up Approach to Quality Improvement in Pneumonia Care [PDF]

, 2009
Highlights strategies for improving pneumonia care, including frontline staff leadership, reassigning responsibilities, ongoing nursing staff education, and the use of evidence-based best practices, concurrent review, and streamlined standing order ...
Aimee Lashbrook
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Effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccines in preventing pneumonia in adults, a systematic review and meta-analyses of observational studies

PLoS ONE, 2017
Introduction S. pneumoniae can cause a wide spectrum of diseases, including invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumonia. Two types of pneumococcal vaccines are indicated for use in adults: 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPV23) and a 13 ...
M. Tin Tin Htar, Anke L. Stuurman, Germano Ferreira, C. Alicino, K. Bollaerts, C. Paganino, Ralf-Rene Reinert, Heinz-Josef Schmitt, C. Trucchi, T. Vestraeten, Filippo Ansaldi   +10 more
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Impact of Real‐Time, On‐Demand Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Testing at Point‐of‐Care on Antibiotic Prescribing and Clinical Outcome in Pediatric Outpatients With Acute Respiratory Illness: A Prospective, Quasi‐Randomized, Controlled Study

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Rapid and accurate detection and identification of viral pathogens have an impact on physician decision‐making for patients with acute respiratory illness (ARI). We aimed to evaluate the Xpert Xpress Flu/RSV test for the management of antibiotic prescribing in pediatric outpatients with ARI. Methods We performed a prospective, quasi‐
Yue Xie, Tianming Chen, Bing Liu, Haijuan Xiao, Xinghui Gao, Qinjing Li, Bing Hu, Cuiying Liu, Chengsong Zhao, Yuchuan Li, Xin Xu, Mengran Li, Yi‐Wei Tang, Gang Liu   +13 more
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Occult pneumococcal septicemia and pneumococcal pneumonia complicating pneumatoceles in a previously healthy child

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1998
Fulminating pneumococcal septicemia without an obvious focus of infection is very rare in previously immunocompetent children older than two years. Furthermore, pneumatocele formation in pneumococcal pneumonia is uncommon.
Y Aslan, F Orhan, H Dinç, H Soylu, E Erduran   +4 more
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Association between respiratory syncytial virus activity and pneumococcal disease in infants: a time series analysis of US hospitalization data.

PLoS Medicine, 2015
BackgroundThe importance of bacterial infections following respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains unclear. We evaluated whether variations in RSV epidemic timing and magnitude are associated with variations in pneumococcal disease epidemics and ...
Daniel M Weinberger, Keith P Klugman, Claudia A Steiner, Lone Simonsen, Cécile Viboud   +4 more
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Are the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines effective? Meta-analysis of the prospective trials

BMC Family Practice, 2000
The objective was to review the evidence of effectiveness of the polyvalent polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine from prospective properly randomised controlled trials comparing pneumococcal vaccines with placebo in subjects who are immunocompetent and ...
Lipsky Benjamin A, Wiffen Philip J, Moore R Andrew   +2 more
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Preventive measures in infancy to reduce under-five mortality: a case-control study in The Gambia.

, 2009
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between child mortality and common preventive interventions: vaccination, trained birthing attendants, tetanus toxoid during pregnancy, breastfeeding and vitamin A supplementation. METHODS: Case-control study in
Adegbola, Richard A, Dockerty, John D, Herbison, Peter, Hill, Philip C, Howie, Stephen RC, Jasseh, Momodou, Jeffries, David J, Mulholland, Kim, Rutherford, Merrin E   +8 more
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Regionally Compartmentalized Resident Memory T Cells Mediate Naturally Acquired Protection Against Pneumococcal Pneumonia

Mucosal Immunology, 2017
As children age, they become less susceptible to the diverse microbes causing pneumonia. These microbes are pathobionts that infect the respiratory tract multiple times during childhood, generating immunological memory.
N. Smith, Gregory A Wasserman, Fadie T. Coleman, Kristie L. Hilliard, Kazuko Yamamoto, Kazuko Yamamoto, E. Lipsitz, R. Malley, Hans Dooms, Matthew R. Jones, L. Quinton, J. Mizgerd   +11 more
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Addressing the Silent Pandemic: The Role of Italian Primary Care Paediatrics in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance

Acta Paediatrica, Volume 115, Issue 2, Page 285-289, February 2026.
Giovanni Cerimoniale, Elena Chiappini, Nicolò Monti, Antonio D'Avino, Nicola Roberto Caputo, Osama Al Jamal, Giuseppe Di Mauro, Domenico Careddu, Antonella Antonelli, Silvia Zecca, Paolo Felice, Raffaele Losco   +11 more
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The impact of childhood pneumococcal vaccination on hospital admissions in England : a whole population observational study [PDF]

, 2019
Background Pneumococcal infections are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We use routine hospital admissions data and time-series modelling analysis to estimate the impact of the seven and thirteen valent pneumococcal conjugate ...
McCarthy, Noel D., Petrou, Stavros, Shiri, Tinevimbo   +2 more
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