title: Health promotion, risk stratification, and treatment options to decrease hospitalization rates for community-acquired pneumonia in adults.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a serious illness and hospitalization for this illness is expensive. There is much the nurse practitioner (NP) can do to prevent and manage this illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of current literature, medical/nursing references, and data from the healthcare utilization project (HCUP).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of health promotion, risk stratification, and current evidence-based treatment guidelines can help to decrease hospitalization rates for CAP for adults.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  NPs are experts at health promotion and evidence-based practice. Adhering to these practices and using risk stratification, NPs can help to further decrease hospitalization rates for CAP lowering healthcare costs related to this serious illness.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Saint Alphonsus Medical Group, Boise, Idaho.
authors.forename: Cherese
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Severson
authors.forename: Collette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Renstrom
authors.forename: Meg
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fitzhugh
mesh_terms: D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States
keywords: Health promotion; lung; nurse practitioners; risk reduction; therapies