Pneumonia diagnoses are marked by pronounced uncertainty, an AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found. More than half the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will ...

Although often independently classified, the diagnosis of pneumonia acquired in the community and pneumonia acquired in the hospital share many common features. Clinical suspicion should rest on a ...

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) is the most prevalent healthcare-associated infection, with 65% of HAPs occurring in non-ventilated patients as non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP).1 ...

The terms hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and health care–associated pneumonia (HCAP) are often used interchangeably, although HCAP encompasses not only patients hospitalized within the past 3 ...

The authors sought to assess the effectiveness of short vs prolonged-course antibiotic administration for hospital-acquired pneumonia in critically ill adults (most of whom had VAP) by conducting a ...

A new study reveals that older men with Alzheimer’s disease face nearly twice the risk of developing hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) compared to women with Alzheimer’s, suggesting that gender-based ...

As a medical oncologist, Dr. Michael Grant’s patients fall into this group. He spoke with us about how he protects his patients from pneumonia and what he suggests when they have unexplained symptoms.

An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their discharge -- either ...