Defining, treating and preventing hospital acquired pneumonia: European perspective

A. Torres, S. Ewig, H. Lode, et al.

Source: Guideline 2009
Number: 2009
Disease area: Respiratory infections

PDF journal article, handout or slidesCME test or case report

Rating: 4.5
You must login to grade this presentation.

Share or cite this content

Citations should be made in the following way:
A. Torres, S. Ewig, H. Lode, et al.. Defining, treating and preventing hospital acquired pneumonia: European perspective. Guideline 2009

You must login to share this Presentation/Article on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or by email.

Member's Comments

SUMARDI SPPDKP - 27.10.2013 03:06
very usefull
You must Login to comment this presentation.


Related content which might interest you:
Health care associated pneumonia versus community acquired pneumonia: Comparison of etiology, treatment and prognosis
Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Viral infections and rare respiratory infections
Year: 2012


Risk factors for immunosuppression in hospitalized patients coming from the community with pneumonia: a worldwide perspective
Source: International Congress 2018 – Improving the outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia
Year: 2018




Improving outcome in elderly patients with pneumonia
Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Antibiotic therapy: short- and long-term outcomes in LRTI
Year: 2005

Health care associated pneumonia (HCAP) and community acquired pneumonia (CAP): Are they different diseases?
Source: Annual Congress 2010 - Healthcare-associated pneumonia: ventilator-associated pneumonia and pneumonia in hospitalised patients
Year: 2010

Validation of a computer predictive model to stratify risk and site of care in community acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Community-acquired pneumonia: clinical approaches
Year: 2005


A worldwide perspective of nursing home pneumonia beside community acquired pneumonia
Source: Annual Congress 2011 - Aetiology, diagnosis and outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia
Year: 2011


Community acquired and health-care associated pneumonia: Should we own follow guidelines?
Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Management of pneumonia due to hospital pathogens
Year: 2012

A prospective comparison of nursing home acquired pneumonia with community acquired pneumonia
Source: Eur Respir J 2001; 18: 362-368
Year: 2001



Community acquired pneumonia guidelines: not only treatment indications
Source: Annual Congress 2004 - PG22 - New perspectives in pneumonia treatment and prophylaxis
Year: 2004

Management of community acquired pneumonia audit
Source: Annual Congress 2009 - Aetiology and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia
Year: 2009


Determinants of hospital costs in community acquired pneumonia
Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Management of pneumonia due to hospital pathogens
Year: 2012


Predicting bacteraemia or rapid identification of the causative pathogen in community acquired pneumonia: where should the priority lie?
Source: Eur Respir J 2016; 48: 619-622
Year: 2016


Quality-indicators and prognostics in CAP in three populations
Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Community-acquired pneumonia: clinical approaches
Year: 2005


Effectiveness of empirical treatment of community acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization
Source: Eur Respir J 2006; 28: Suppl. 50, 166s
Year: 2006

Audit of the management of patients admitted to a Dublin teaching hospital with community acquired pneumonia between October 2003 and February 2004
Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Community-acquired pneumonia: clinical approaches
Year: 2005


Implementing a community acquired pneumonia care bundle in the acute hospital setting
Source: Annual Congress 2011 - The new clinical spectrum of lung diseases: from bronchi to pleura
Year: 2011


Management of community acquired pneumonia
Source: Annual Congress 2010 - Aetiology of lower respiratory tract infections and treatment in special situations
Year: 2010


Management of community acquired pneumonia
Source: Annual Congress 2008 - Lower respiratory tract infection: from outbreak to prognostic tests
Year: 2008

Consequences of community acquired pneumonia requiring admission to hospital in childhood
Source: Eur Respir J 2004; 24: Suppl. 48, 171s
Year: 2004

Prevalence, complications and evolution of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children in a secondary hospital in Brazil – 4 year‘s experience
Source: Eur Respir J 2006; 28: Suppl. 50, 494s
Year: 2006