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Nursing home-acquired pneumonia
1Department of Medicine, St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center, MN 55101.
Seminars in Respiratory Infections
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
Pulmonary infection acquired in nursing homes has not been extensively studied. Those data that have been published about the frequency and nature of nursing home-associated pneumonias are reviewed here. It remains unclear whether or not these institutionally-acquired pneumonias differ significantly from those that would occur in an age-matched control group with community-acquired infection. Viral pneumonias are recognized as significant causes of morbidity in the elderly.