Anales de pediatría : publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)
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June 2007
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Multicenter Study
[Clinicoepidemiological characteristics of community-acquired pneumonia in children aged less than 6 years old].
Acute respiratory infections are an important cause of consultations in primary care and hospitals. Most published epidemiological studies have analyzed pneumonia in hospitals and very few include information on primary care. ⋯ In our milieu, the diagnosis and treatment of community-acquired pneumonia is usually carried out in primary care and the incidence is high. Although most patients do not require hospitalization, etiological diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and optimal antibiotic therapy remain difficult goals to achieve.