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ArticleBMJ open respiratory research2015

British Thoracic Society community acquired pneumonia guideline and the NICE pneumonia guideline: how they fit together.

W S Lim, D L Smith, M P Wise, S A Welham

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Article in BMJ open respiratory research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

W S LimDepartment of Respiratory Medicine , Nottingham City Hospital , Nottingham , UK.
D L SmithSouthmead Hospital , North Bristol Lung Centre , Bristol , UK.
M P WiseDepartment of Adult Critical Care , University Hospital of Wales , Cardiff , UK.
S A WelhamBritish Thoracic Society , London , UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

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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Pneumonia

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PMID26019876
PMCPMC4442154

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