Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults
Am. fam. physician; 83 (11), 2011
Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung
imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...
Neumonía/diagnóstico por imagen, Neumonía/terapia, Enfermedades Respiratorias/diagnóstico, Atención Ambulatoria/organización & administración, Cultivo de Sangre/instrumentación, Macrólidos/uso terapéutico, Doxiciclina/uso terapéutico, Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico, Fluoroquinolonas/uso terapéutico, Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos, Neumonía Asociada a la Atención Médica/prevención & control