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ats guidelines cap breathe ersjournals content breathe 4 2 110 full pdf PDF fileSociety of America IDSA and the American Thoracic Society ATS issued a consensus guidelines document on the management of community acquired pneumonia CAP 1 The document includes important advances and uni fies the previous guidelines released separately by the two societies Strength of recommendation and evidence levelPublished in Breathe 2007Authors F Piffer F Tardini Roberto Cosentini ats guidelines cap 0272CIThe Infectious Diseases Society of America American Thoracic Society IDSA ATS guideline minor criteria have demonstrated good predictive value in retrospective studies The CURXO and SMART COP criteria are similar to the IDSA ATS minor criteria

centers copd management of The IDSA ATS CAP guidelines recommend that in addition to clinical features a diagnosis of pneumonia require demonstrable infiltrate by chest x ray or other imaging technique with or without microbiological data ats guidelines cap Guidelines for CAP The American Thoracic Society ATS and the Canadian Infectious Disease Society have provided guidelines to help the clinician treat CAP inpatients and outpatients 7 8 By providing criteria to stratify patients with the disease these guidelines suggest when to hospitalize the patient and what courses of therapy may be useful American Thoracic Society improves global health by advancing research patient care and public health in pulmonary disease critical illness and sleep disorders Founded in 1905 to combat TB the ATS has grown to tackle asthma COPD lung cancer sepsis acute respiratory distress and sleep apnea among other diseases

19186The information in this section is derived mainly from the current Infectious Diseases Society of America American Thoracic Society IDSA ATS guidelines for the management of CAP ats guidelines cap American Thoracic Society improves global health by advancing research patient care and public health in pulmonary disease critical illness and sleep disorders Founded in 1905 to combat TB the ATS has grown to tackle asthma COPD lung cancer sepsis acute respiratory distress and sleep apnea among other diseases of community acquired Duration of therapy Based upon the available data we agree with the recommendation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America IDSA American Thoracic Society ATS guidelines that patients with CAP should be treated for a minimum of five days