Antibiotics for community acquired pneumonia in adult outpatients

Does Bradford's Law of Scattering predict the size of the literature in Cochrane Reviews?

“…For pneumonia, the search in the Cochrane Library found 62 reviews, of which 9 met the inclusion criteria, yielding 251 articles from 110 journals [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”

Study of community-acquired pneumonia: Incidence, patterns of care, and outcomes in primary and hospital care

“…Anyway, current available evidence is insufficient to make recommendations for the choice of antibiotic to be used for treatment of CAP in ambulatory patients. 35 This is a population study with the participation of 150 FPs. Fully participation of all FP is not assured and, therefore, we must assume as a limitation the fact that the real incidence of pneumonia was quite likely underestimate in our study since not all real cases would have been included.…”

Viral and bacterial aetiology of community‐acquired pneumonia in adults

“…All samples were tested using real‐time PCR for the presence of respiratory viruses and bacteria including adenovirus (AdV), human bocavirus (hBoV), KI‐ and WU polyomaviruses (KIPyV and WUPyV), human metapneumovirus (hMPV), human rhinovirus (HRV), human coronaviruses (HCoV) (OC43, NL63, HKU and 229E), parainfluenza viruses (PIV), 1–4 influenza viruses A and B (InfA, InfB), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Legionella pneumophila, Mycoplasma pneumoniae , Chlamydophila psittaci, Chlamydophila pneumoniae , Coxiella burnetii and Streptococcus pneumoniae . Real‐time PCR procedures were performed as described in reference 16–22.…”

“…Community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common disorder and a major medical problem. In 30–50% of the patients with CAP, no specific organism is identified, despite the extensive use of diagnostic tests 1–3 . The most common causative pathogen of bacterial CAP is Streptococcus pneumoniae 4 .…”