Improving Outcomes in Elderly Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia by Adhering to National Guidelines | Zendy

Forest W. Arnold | Zendy; A. Scott LaJoie | Zendy; Guy Brock | Zendy; Paula Peyrani | Zendy; Jordi Rello | Zendy; Rosario Menéndez | Zendy; Gustavo Lopardo | Zendy; Antoní Torres | Zendy; Paolo Giorgi Rossi | Zendy; Julio A. Ramírez | Zendy

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Improving Outcomes in Elderly Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia by Adhering to National Guidelines

Author(s) -

Forest W. Arnold,

A. Scott LaJoie,

Guy Brock,

Paula Peyrani,

Jordi Rello,

Rosario Menéndez,

Gustavo Lopardo,

Antoní Torres,

Paolo Giorgi Rossi,

Julio A. Ramírez

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.265

Subject(s) - medicine , community acquired pneumonia , guideline , confidence interval , pneumonia , incidence (geometry) , cumulative incidence , cohort , cohort study , retrospective cohort study , physics , pathology , optics

To define whether elderly patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) had better outcomes if they were treated with empirical antimicrobial therapy adherent to the 2007 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) guidelines for CAP.

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