The American journal of nursing
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Among the most common causes of U. S. adult hospitalizations, pneumonia accounted for nearly 50,000 deaths in the United States in 2017. ⋯ The article also details key similarities and differences between the new 2019 guideline jointly developed by the American Thoracic Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America on diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia and their earlier 2007 guideline. One crucial difference is the growing recognition that the etiology of pneumonia is changing, necessitating the abandonment of prior categorizations of pneumonia type when determining antibiotic coverage in favor of reliance on local epidemiology and validated risk factors for antimicrobial resistance.
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The future of the profession is being forged under challenging circumstances.
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Nearly 30% of health workers with COVID-19 didn't know they had it.