Viral testing should be carried out among all older individuals who have been admitted to hospital for nursing home-acquired pneumonia (NHAP), recommend researchers. "Early detection of viral ...

Background. This study sought to identify modifiable risk factors for pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents. Methods. A cohort of 613 elderly residents (age, >65 years) of 5 nursing homes in the ...

Equipping nursing home staff with proper training and techniques to provide effective oral care to residents reduced the number of pneumonia cases at facilities during the first year of a two-year ...

Hospitalization might not be necessary for some pneumonia patients. Nursing home residents with pneumonia are often hospitalized. To determine whether some of these hospitalizations can be avoided, ...

BOSTON — When elderly nursing home residents contract pneumonia, it is a blow to their already fragile health. Simin Nikbin Meydani, DVM, PhD of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on ...

Nursing home residents with pneumonia may actually be better off when treated in their facility rather than transferred to a hospital for treatment, a new study suggests. Transferring nursing home ...

With a simple screening tool, nurses at a cancer treatment center were able to identify patients at high risk for hospital-acquired pneumonia and implement measures to eradicate the infection, ...

Improvements in hospital care for patients with pneumonia could be behind a drop in the number of deaths over the last six years, suggests new UK research. Subscribe today for unlimited access to ...

Pneumonia can be difficult to detect in young children. This case concerns a boy with pneumonia, who presented initially with upper respiratory tract infection Subscribe today for unlimited access to ...

Maintaining normal serum zinc concentration in the blood may help reduce the risk of pneumonia development in elderly nursing home residents. Study participants with normal serum zinc concentrations ...