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- Title
Outcomes of patients hospitalized with community-acquired, health care-associated, and hospital-acquired pneumonia.
- Authors
Venditti, Mario; Falcone, Marco; Corrao, Salvatore; Licata, Giuseppe; Serra, Pietro; Study Group of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 2009, Vol 150, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
1539-3704
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-150-1-200901060-00005