title: What is the best approach to the nonresponding patient with community-acquired pneumonia?
abstract: Treatment failure in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the failure to normalize the clinical features (eg, fever, cough, sputum production), or nonresolving image in chest radiograph, despite antimicrobial therapy. The incidence of treatment failure in CAP has not been clearly established; according to several studies it ranges between 6% and 15%. The rate of mortality increases significantly, especially in those patients with severe CAP. It is important to be able to identify what patients are at risk for progressive or treatment failure pneumonia that may make them candidates for a more careful monitoring.
authors: Pneumology Department, Clinic Institute of Thorax (ICT), Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain.
authors: Salvador
authors: S
authors: Sialer
authors: Adamantia
authors: A
authors: Liapikou
authors: Antoni
authors: A
authors: Torres
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012307:Risk Factors; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents