Outpatient management of community-acquired pneumonia

Froes, F; Gonçalves-Pereira, J; Póvoa, P

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Froes, F

Gonçalves-Pereira, J

Póvoa, P

Abstract(s)

The first guidelines on community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were published in 1993, but since then many of the challenges regarding the outpatient management of CAP persist. These include the difficulty in establishing the initial clinical diagnosis, its risk stratification, which will dictate the place of treatment, the empirical choice of antibiotics, the relative scarcity of novel antibiotics and the importance of knowing local microbiological susceptibility patterns.