ArticleThorax2015
British Thoracic Society community acquired pneumonia guideline and the NICE pneumonia guideline: how they fit together.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Construction and Validation of a Convenient Death Prediction Model for Pediatric Pneumonia Patients in Intensive Care Units.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Description and characterization of pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia (CAP) among radiologically confirmed CAP in outpatients.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2025Observational
- Inflammatory markers in hospitalized patients with bacterial pneumonia: comparison of Gram-positive versus Gram-negative etiology and admission versus discharge findings.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2025Article
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- Unmet needs in pneumonia research: a comprehensive approach by the CAPNETZ study group.Respiratory research · 2022Review
- Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Position Statement on Acute Oxygen Use in Adults: 'Swimming between the flags'.Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2022Article
- Point-of-care application of diaphragmatic ultrasonography in the emergency department for the prediction of development of respiratory failure in community-acquired pneumonia: A pilot study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- An audit of community-acquired pneumonia antimicrobial compliance using an intervention bundle in an Irish hospital.Journal of global antimicrobial resistance · 2020Article
- Signs and symptoms do not predict, but may help rule out acute Q fever in favour of other respiratory tract infections, and reduce antibiotics overuse in primary care.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Potential utility of targeted Nanopore sequencing for improving etiologic diagnosis of bacterial and fungal respiratory infection.Diagnostic pathology · 2020Article
- Accuracy and consequences of usingBMJ open · 2020Article
- Does size matter? Addressing pack size and antibiotic duration.Australian prescriber · 2019Article
- Management Of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Observational Study In UK Primary Care.Pragmatic and observational research · 2019Article
- Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia.Nature microbiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Pneumonia Guideline. Of the 36 BTS recommendations that overlapped with NICE recommendations, no major differences were found in 31, including those covering key aspects of CAP management: timeliness of diagnosis and treatment, severity assessment and empirical antibiotic choice. Of the five BTS recommendations where major differences with NICE were identified, one related to antibiotic duration in low and moderate severity CAP, two to the timing of review of patients and two to legionella urinary antigen testing.
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