Etiology, Treatments, and Outcomes of Patients With Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Large U.S. Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Compare the clinical practice and outcomes in severe community-acquired pneumonia (sCAP) patients to those in non-sCAP patients using guideline-defined criteria for sCAP.

Design

Retrospective observational cohort study.

Setting

One hundred seventy-seven U.S. hospitals within the Premier Healthcare Database.

Patients

Hospitalized adult (≥ 18 yr old) patients with pneumonia.

Measurements and main results

Adult patients (≥ 18 yr old) with a principal diagnosis of pneumonia or a secondary diagnosis of pneumonia paired with a principal diagnosis of sepsis or respiratory failure were included. Patients with at least one guideline-defined major criterion for severe pneumonia were compared with patients with nonsevere disease. Among 154,799 patients w

SUBMITTER: Haessler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9233133 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature