The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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...Bronchitis or bronchiolitise 259 28 (18-39) 608 23 (18-28) 140 30 (20-40) 1007 25 (20-30)...
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...Other skin, cutaneous, and mucosal conditions 607 37 (30-43) 1321 32 (25-39) 384 64 (39-89) 2312 38 (30-45)...
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...Urinary tract infections 436 23 (17-28) 1465 35 (30-41) 459 64 (51-77) 2360 35 (31-40)...
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...Skin, cutaneous, and mucosal infections 570 39 (32-46) 1493 39 (33-44) 230 38 (29-47) 2293 39 (34-43)...
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...Pharyngitis 1001 91 (76-105) 785 29 (23-35) 39 d 1825 43 (38-49)...
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...Guidelines for treatment of mild or moderate pediatric pneumonia in otherwise healthy children recommend amoxicillin as the first-line agent for school-aged children; macrolides are recommended only for school-aged children and adolescents with findings compatible with atypical pneumonia [31]....
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"The Management of Community-Acquire..." refers methods in this paper
...As with all IDSA clinical practice guidelines initiated after 1 October 2008, the expert panel employed the GRADE (Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) method of assigning strength of recommendation and quality of the evidence to each recommendation (see Table 2) [3]....
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...The panel followed a process used in the development of other Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines, which included a systematic weighting of the quality of the evidence and the grade of the recommendation [3] (Table 1)....
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"The Management of Community-Acquire..." refers background or methods in this paper
...Sputum Gram Stain and Culture Gram stain and culture of expectorated sputum are recommended for adults hospitalized with CAP [27]....
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...Therapy with the respiratory fluoroquinolones has demonstrated treatment outcomes for adults that are not inferior to macrolides and tetracyclines [27, 209]....
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...Process Overview As with other clinical practice guidelines developed by IDSA, a need for guidelines for pediatric CAP was demonstrated and the goals for the guidelines were similar to those for CAP in adults [27]....
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...diagnose pneumococcal pneumonia in adults [27]....
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