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SHM Individualize Therapy for Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia For patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia, stratify the patient's risk factors for multidrug-resistant organisms and then reevaluate the need for antibiotics after 48 to 72 hours.
Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2012
Diagnostic Coding Shifts Behind Drop in Pneumonia Deaths Pneumonia mortality didn't fall between 2003 and 2009 because care was getting better, but because the sickest pneumonia patients were getting a different primary diagnosis code.
Reuters Health Information, April 6, 2012

Rosuvastatin Linked to Lower Pneumonia Risk
Reuters Health Information, March 21, 2012
Zinc Does Not Reduce Duration of Severe Pneumonia
Medscape Medical News, March 5, 2012
Prevnar Trial Results Needed for CDC Recommendation
Reuters Health Information, February 23, 2012
PCV13 Vaccine Proves Cost-Effective
Medscape Medical News, February 21, 2012

Antibiotic Stewardship in the Emergency Department How can we get ED physicians to take up the mantle of antibiotic stewardship?
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), May 1, 2012
A Simple Risk Score for Multidrug-Resistant Pneumonia A study tests a previously developed clinical risk score for its usefulness in identifying patients with a resistant organism.
Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 23, 2012

Top 10 Critical Care Research Articles of 2011
Medscape Critical Care, January 17, 2012
The Curious Case of the Patient Who Was Killed by a Corpse
Medscape General Surgery, January 5, 2012
A Lumberjack Who Is Not OK
Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 28, 2011
Best Use of Antibiotics for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Medscape Critical Care, December 12, 2011

New Therapies for Pneumonia
Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, May 9, 2012
Update on the Treatment and Prevention of CAP in Children
U.S. Pharmacist, April 27, 2012
Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Caused by ESKAPE Organisms
Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, April 25, 2012
Prevention of Acute Otitis Media Using Available Vaccines
Future Microbiology, April 23, 2012
Biomarkers in Community-acquired Pneumonia
Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, April 23, 2012