Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is defined as pneumonia occurring 48 hours or more after hospital admission and not incubating at admission. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is pneumonia that ...

Nosocomial pneumonia remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit, encompassing hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Management ...

The authors sought to assess the effectiveness of short vs prolonged-course antibiotic administration for hospital-acquired pneumonia in critically ill adults (most of whom had VAP) by conducting a ...

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A landmark trial presented at ESCMID Global 2026 shows that improving oral hygiene for hospital patients can reduce the risk of non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) by 60%.

Pneumonia diagnoses are marked by pronounced uncertainty, an AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found. More than half the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will ...

A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a ...

Pneumonia that fails to respond to treatment is a common problem. Although quantification of the frequency of this problem is difficult, approximately 15% of pulmonary consultations and 8% of ...

A new study reveals that older men with Alzheimer’s disease face nearly twice the risk of developing hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) compared to women with Alzheimer’s, suggesting that gender-based ...