Tag: pneumonia

1. The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines PCV7 and PCV13 resulted in a decrease in pneumonia and sinusitis hospitalizations in ...

Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. Most cases of pneumonia are caused ...

1. In Switzerland, patients who were hospitalized with pneumonia and treated with beta-lactam antibiotic monotherapy did not fare as well ...

1. Worldwide, more than half of the deaths in children under five years of age were attributed to an infectious ...

1. Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) fell significantly among neonatal intensive care units between 2007 and ...

1. Azithromycin use was associated with decreased mortality in elderly patients hospitalized for pneumonia compared to treatment regimens with other ...

Image: PD 1. Despite 2011 national clinical practice guidelines suggesting narrow-spectrum antibiotics as empiric therapy for children hospitalized with presumed ...

Image: PD In this section, we will highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the ...

Image: PD  1. The HLA-B*13:01 allele was strongly associated with dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome.  2. The presence of the allele is ...

1. Patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can be stratified into mortality risk groups using a five-point score. 2. One point ...