Lauri A. Hicks

TL;DR: The incidence of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization was highest among the oldest adults and despite current diagnostic tests, no pathogen was detected in the majority of patients.

TL;DR: In the United States in 2010-2011, there was an estimated annual antibiotic prescription rate per 1000 population of 506, but only an estimated 353 antibiotic prescriptions were likely appropriate, supporting the need for establishing a goal for outpatient antibiotic stewardship.

TL;DR: The incidence of pneumococcal disease caused by nonvaccine serotypes is increasing and Ongoing surveillance is needed to monitor the magnitude of disease cause by non vaccines, to ensure that future vaccines target the appropriate serotypes.

TL;DR: In this article, evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and initial management of suspected acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in adults and children were prepared by a multidisciplinary expert panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America comprising clinicians and investigators representing internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, otolaryngology, public health, epidemiology and adult and pediatric infectious disease specialties.

TL;DR: Efforts to characterize antibiotic prescribing practices should focus on the South census region and family practitioners, and counties with a high proportion of obese persons, infants and children ≤ 2 years of age, prescribers per capita, and females were more likely to be high prescribing.