Guidelines on antimicrobial therapy of pneumonia in adults in Taiwan, revised 2006.

The Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan (IDST) established and issued the first version of “Guidelines on Antimicrobial Therapy of Pneumonia in Taiwan” in December 1999. A revised version was issued in conjunction with the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine in 2001. With the advances in many areas of medicine and revisions in the American “Update of Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompetent Adults” and “Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia”, featuring the addition of new antimicrobial agents and classification of pneumonia according to risk class, Taiwan investigators have published extensively regarding causative pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in pneumonia. This prompted the IDST-led consensus conference “Revisions of Guidelines on Antimicrobial Therapy of Pneumonia in Taiwan” held in late 2005.* After a year Guidelines on antimicrobial therapy of pneumonia in adults in Taiwan, revised 2006