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Community-Acquired Infection

Data on community-acquired infection described by S. Ewig et al

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 25th, 2010

"The increasing numbers of patients who are elderly and severely disabled has led to the introduction of a new category of pneumonia management: health-care-associated pneumonia (HCAP)," scientists in Bochum, Germany report.

"An analysis of the available evidence in support of this category, however, reveals heterogeneous and misleading definitions of HCAP, reliance on microbiological data of questionable validity, failure to recognise the contribution of aspiration pneumonia, failure to control microbial patterns for functional status, and failure to recognise frequently applied restrictions of treatment escalation as bias in assessing outcomes. As a result, the...

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