Clinical practice of respiratory virus diagnostics in critically ill patients with a suspected pneumonia: A prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical guidelines suggest testing for respiratory viruses during the influenza season, but are unclear which categories of patients on the intensive care unit (ICU) should be tested.

Objective

We described the clinical practice of diagnostic testing for respiratory virus infections in patients presenting to ICU with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) or hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP).

Study design

Prospective observational study in consecutive CAP and HAP patients with an ICU stay of more than 24h in two tertiary care hospitals in The Netherlands, from 2011 to December 2013. The proportion of patients receiving diagnostic testing with PCR for the presence of respiratory viruses in respiratory tract specimens was determined.

Results

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SUBMITTER: van Someren Greve F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7106504 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature