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Bacterial etiology of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hospitali...
Carugati, Manuela; Aliberti, S.; Sotgiu, G.; Blasi, F.; Gori, A.; Menendez, R.; Encheva, M.; Gallego, M.; Leuschner, P.; Ruiz-Buitrago, S.An accurate knowledge of the epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is key for selecting appropriate antimicrobial treatments. Very few etiological studies assessed the appropriateness of empiric guideline recommendations at a multinational level. This study aims at the following: (i) describing the bacterial etiologic distribution of CAP and (ii) assessing the appropriateness of the empirical treat...
The EMBARC European Bronchiectasis Registry: protocol for an international obse...
Chalmers, J.; Aliberti, S.; Polverino, E.; Vendrell, M.; Crichton, M.; Loebinger, M.; Dimakou, K.; Clifton, I.; van der Eerden, M.; Rohde, G.Bronchiectasis is one of the most neglected diseases in respiratory medicine. There are no approved therapies and few large-scale, representative epidemiological studies. The EMBARC (European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Audit and Research Collaboration) registry is a prospective, pan-European observational study of patients with bronchiectasis. The inclusion criterion is a primary clinical diagnosis of bronchiec...