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Diagnosis and Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

Watkins, Richard R; Lemonovich, Tracy L.

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...

Pneumonia/diagnostic imaging, Pneumonia/therapy, Respiratory Tract Diseases/diagnosis, Ambulatory Care/organization & administration, Blood Culture/instrumentation, Macrolides/therapeutic use, Doxycycline/therapeutic use, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Fluoroquinolones/therapeutic use, Intensive Care Units, Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia/prevention & control

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Clinical management of influenza and other acute respiratory illness in resource-limited settings: learning from the influenza pandemic (H1N1) 2009

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, reached all parts of the world within a year, causing epidemics of varying magnitude. During the pandemic period, the World Health Organization (WHO) received reports of over 18 000 laboratory-confirmed deaths due to infection with t...