Krueger P, Loeb M, Kelly C, Edward HG. Assessing, treating and preventing community acquired pneumonia in older adults: findings from a community-wide survey of emergency room and family physicians. BMC Fam Pract 2005;6:32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-6-32...
The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Immunization Trial in Adults (CAPiTA) is an industry-sponsored (Pfizer) trial with the primary objective of showing the efficacy of a polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in preventing pneumococcal pneumonia in adults. This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind...
Pneumonia involves an acute inflammatory process of the lung parenchyma caused by infectious agents that can lead to alveolar consolidation and pulmonary infiltrates. Pneumonia is classified as community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), or...
Pneumonia can be classified in several ways, most commonly by where it was acquired (hospital-acquired, nursing home-acquired and community-acquired pneumonia), but may also be classified by the cause (Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing, eosinophilic, aspiration, Dust pneumonia and so on) or the ...
In their latest contribution to our exchange, Hollingsworth and Isturiz say that the effectiveness of PPV23 in preventing non-bacteremic (or non-invasive) pneumococcal pneumonia (NPP) or all-cause community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) "has not been established".5 This statement is the foundation for...
or dust. The most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia isStreptococcus pneumonia,9and it is one of several pneumococcal diseases—S. pneumoniaalso causes meningitis, bacteremia, otitis media, and sinusitis.10It, too, is vaccine preventable to a great extent by using the pneumococcal polysa...
Community-acquired pneumonia: Identifying and treating severe disease Note ominous prognostic signs; seek the cause, but start empiric therapy at once The mortality associated with severe community-acquired pneumonia remains... MG Calalang,A Fein 被引量: 0发表: 1999年 ...
In Shanghai, China, 2 previously vaccinated pediatric transplant recipients acquired measles during a hospital outbreak. The time after transplantation was unclear; both patients survived, although 1 developed pneumonia [64]. Data are unavailable for most other cancer populations and patients receiving ...
Oral care measures for preventing nursing home-acquired pneumonia: ProtocolsThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess effects of oral care measures for preventing nursing home-acquired pneumonia in residents of nursing homes and other long-term...
A group of health care leaders, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst nurse innovator, has published a national call to action to prevent non-ventilator-associated, hospital-acquired pneumonia (NVHAP). This call to action was developed by a joint task force of key national healthcare st...