Revista clínica española
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Revista clínica española · Nov 1999
Multicenter Study Comparative Study Clinical Trial[Diagnosis and ambulatory treatment of patients with community-acquired pneumonia: variability of complementary tests and study of the effectiveness of roxithromycin. Study Group on Ambulatory Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (NACTA)].
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been the subject of a number of studies. Nevertheless, studies focused on effectiveness of therapy and variability of diagnostic tests are scarce. ⋯ The variability of diagnostic tests used in patients with CAP is remarkable but their yield is of little effect. Patients with CAP candidates for ambulatory therapy can receive empiric antibiotic therapy with roxithromycin. In this series, roxithromycin had a high clinical effectiveness and was well tolerated.