Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa community acquired pneumonia: Prevalence and locally derived risk factors in a single hospital system.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Current American Thoracic Society/Infectious Disease Society of America (ATS/IDSA) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines expand the CAP definition to include infections occurring in patients with recent health care exposure. The guidelines now recommend that hospital systems determine their own local prevalence and predictors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among patients satisfying this new broader CAP definition. We sought to carry out these recommendations in our system, focusing on the emergency department, where CAP diagnosis and initial empiric antibiotic selection usually ooccur.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients admitted with CAP through any of 3 EDs in our h

SUBMITTER: Frazee BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10620376 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature