TY - JOUR T1 - Prevention is better than cure: time to change the focus of community-acquired pneumonia management JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1524 LP - 1525 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00064015 VL - 45 IS - 6 AU - Tobias Welte Y1 - 2015/06/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/6/1524.abstract N2 - Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of hospital admission for infectious disease in Europe, and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. According to the results of Global Burden of Disease study, in the World Health Organization European region, community-acquired pneumonia accounted for 230 000 (2.3%) deaths and 2.2 million (1.5%) disability-adjusted life-years in 2010, and was ranked the fifth most common cause of death in the continent [1]. The incidence of community-acquired pneumonia increases with age and the burden is therefore set to become greater and more costly with the ageing worldwide population. Increased awareness of the role of adult vaccination is needed to reduce pneumococcal pneumonia rates http://ow.ly/M3pqj ER -