OBJECTIVE To assess whether passive smoking exposure at home is a risk factor for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults. SETTING A population-based case-control study was designed in a Mediterranean area with 860 000 inhabitants >14 years of age. PARTICIPANTS 1003 participants who had never smoked were recruited. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES Risk factors for CAP, includin...

Community acquired pneumonia is a common illness with significant morbidity and mortality in children and a high cost to society. Guidelines for management in the UK were issued by the British Thoracic Society in 2002 [Thorax 57 (2002) 1]. This review summarises the guidelines with emphasis on aetiology, investigations and antibiotic treatment.

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are widely used as tools for improving quality of health care. Guidelines developed elsewhere, can be adapted using a valid and systematic process. AIM To describe the methodology used in the process of adaptation of a guideline for the management of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a private health care organization. MATERIAL A...

Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of hospital admission for infectious disease in Europe, and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. According to the results of Global Burden of Disease study, in the World Health Organization European region, community-acquired pneumonia accounted for 230000 (2.3%) deaths and 2.2 million (1.5%) disability-adjusted life-years in 2010, and was ...

GENERAL COMMENTS The question posed is a good one. However this study does not answer it because the statistical analysis is not well enough described to know if the multivariable analysis was able to show that elevated pCO2 was an independent risk factor for increased los etc . COPD and decreased pH were significantly different in the high pC02 group as one would expect and given this sample s...

BACKGROUND Data describing real-life management and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Europe are limited. REACH (http://NCT01293435) was a retrospective, observational study collecting data on the management of EU patients hospitalized with CAP. METHODS Patients were aged ≥18 years, hospitalized with CAP between March 2010 and February 2011, and requiring in-hospital treatmen...

We estimate and describe the incidence rates, mortality, and cost of CAP (community-acquired pneumonia), in both inpatient and outpatient settings, in the Czech Republic (CZ), Slovakia (SK), Poland (PL), and Hungary (HU). A retrospective analysis was conducted on administrative data from the health ministry and insurance reimbursement claims with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia in 2009 to dete...