作者
Mario Venditti, Marco Falcone, Salvatore Corrao, Giuseppe Licata, Pietro Serra, Study Group of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine*
发表日期
2009/1/6
期刊
Annals of internal medicine
卷号
150
期号
1
页码范围
19-26
出版商
American College of Physicians
简介
Background
Traditionally, pneumonia has been classified as either community- or hospital-acquired. Although only limited data are available, health care–associated pneumonia has been recently proposed as a new category of respiratory infection. “Health care–associated pneumonia” refers to pneumonia in patients who have recently been hospitalized, had hemodialysis, or received intravenous chemotherapy or reside in a nursing home or long-term care facility.
Objective
To ascertain the epidemiology and outcome of community-acquired, health care–associated, and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults hospitalized in internal medicine wards.
Design
Multicenter, prospective observational study.
Setting
55 hospitals in Italy comprising 1941 beds.
Patients
362 patients …
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