Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2011
Identifier
PMCID: PMC3202323 DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir625
Abstract
Evidenced-based guidelines for management of infants and children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were prepared by an expert panel comprising clinicians and investigators representing community pediatrics, public health, and the pediatric specialties of critical care, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, infectious diseases, pulmonology, and surgery. These guidelines are intended for use by primary care and subspecialty providers responsible for the management of otherwise healthy infants and children with CAP in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Site-of-care management, diagnosis, antimicrobial and adjunctive surgical therapy, and prevention are discussed. Areas that warrant future investigations are also highlighted.
Journal Title
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Volume
53
Issue
7
First Page
617
Last Page
630
MeSH Keywords
Child; Child, Preschool; Community-Acquired Infections; Humans; Infant; Pneumonia
Keywords
Community-Aquired infections; Pneumonia
Recommended Citation
Bradley, J. S., Byington, C. L., Shah, S. S., Alverson, B., Carter, E. R., Harrison, C., Kaplan, S. L., Mace, S. E., McCracken, G. H., Moore, M. R., St Peter, S. D., Stockwell, J. A., Swanson, J. T., . Executive summary: the management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: clinical practice guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 53, 617-630 (2011).
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