Epidemiological survey on incidence and treatment of community acquired pneumonia in Italy☆
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Abbreviations
CNR
Italian National Research Council
CAP
community acquired pneumonia
LRTIs
lower respiratory tract infections
FP
family practitioner
ERS
European Respiratory Society
AIPO
Italian Association of Hospital Pneumologists
SIMeR
Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine
SIMG
Italian Society of General Practitioners
SPSS
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
COM
“white forms” reporting information on diagnostic suspicion formulated directly by FP
HOS
“blue forms” reporting information on diagnosis made within the hospital
COPD
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
IDSA
Infectious Disease Society of America
ATS
American Thoracic Society
BTS
British Thoracic Society
PORT
Pneumonia Patient Outcomes Research Team
Keywords
Community acquired pneumonia
Epidemiology
Incidence
Antibiotics
Family practitioners
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This work was supported in part by an educational grant of Smith-Kline-Beecham—Italy and of GlaxoSmithKline, Greenford, Middlesex, UK.
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