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Target Audience: General internists, family practitioners, emergency department physicians, hospitalists, intensivists, infectious disease specialists, pulmonary specialists
This update of the 2007 community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines involves a more evidence-based approach and includes 16 management questions addressing initial diagnosis through therapy completion and follow-up.
Unchanged recommendations include:
Obtain Legionella and pneumococcal urinary antigen assays only in patients with severe CAP or epidemiologic risk factors.
Do not add anaerobic coverage routinely for suspected as…