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Article: Algorithm cuts pneumonia hospitalizations in elderly.(Infectious Diseases)(Report)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- August 15, 2007
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MONTREAL -- Hospitalization can be reduced by more than half among nursing home residents with pneumonia and other lower respiratory tract infections, with no compromise in morbidity or mortality, Dr. Mark Loeb said at an international conference on community-acquired pneumonia.
"Pneumonia is the most important reason why residents are transferred to hospital, but hospitalization can lead to functional decline, infection with multiresistant organisms, urinary tract infections, and delirium," said Dr. Loeb of the department of pathology and molecular medicine at Mc-Master University, Hamilton, Ont.
Reducing the rate of hospitalization in this population ...