• J Med Liban · Jan 2014

    Practice Guideline

    The Lebanese Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (LSIDCM) guidelines for adult community-acquired pneumonia (Cap) in Lebanon.

    • Rima Moghnieh, Nadine Yared Sakr, Souha S Kanj, Umayya Musharrafieh, Rula Husni, Mona Jradeh, Ghassan Al-Awar, Madona Matar, Wafa Jureij, Saad Antoine, Eid Azar, Pierre Abi Hanna, Afaf Minari, Jamale Hammoud, Joumana Kfoury, Tahsin Mahfouz, Diaa Abou Chakra, Mohamad Zaatari, Zuhayr A Tabbarah, and Lebanese Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (LSIDCM).
    • J Med Liban. 2014 Jan 1; 62 (1): 40-7.

    AbstractAdult community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality which is managed by different disciplines in a heterogeneous fashion. Development of consensus guidelines to standardize these wide variations in care has become a prime objective. The Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (LSIDCM) convened to set Lebanese national guidelines for the management of CAP since it is a major and a prevalent disease affecting the Lebanese population. These guidelines, besides being helpful in direct clinical practice, play a major role in establishing stewardship programs in hospitals in an effort to contain antimicrobial resistance on the national level. These guidelines are intended for primary care practitioners and emergency medicine physicians. They constitute an appropriate starting point for specialists' consultation being based on the available local epidemiological and resistance data. This document includes the following: 1/ Rationale and scope of the guidelines; 2/ Microbiology of CAP based on Lebanese data; 3/ Clinical presentation and diagnostic workup of CAP; 4/ Management and prevention strategies based on the IDSA/ATS Consensus Guidelines, 2007, and the ESCMID Guidelines, 2011, and tailored to the microbiological data in Lebanon; 5/ Comparison to regional guidelines. The recommendations made in this document were graded based on the strength of the evidence as in the 2007 IDSA/ATS Consensus Guidelines. Hopefully, these guidelines will be an important step towards standardization of CAP care in Lebanon and set the agenda for further research in this area.

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