Society guideline links: Community-acquired pneumonia in adults

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults".)

International

●Management of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompromised adults: A consensus statement regarding initial strategies (2020)

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II) (2018)

United States

●American College of Physicians (ACP): Appropriate use of short-course antibiotics in common infections – Best practice advice (2021)

●American Thoracic Society (ATS): Clinical practice guideline on nucleic acid–based testing for noninfluenza viral pathogens in adults with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (2021)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Clinical policy on critical issues in the management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with community-acquired pneumonia (2020)

●American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST): Guideline and expert panel report on adult outpatients with acute cough due to suspected pneumonia or influenza (2019)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute respiratory illness in immunocompromised patients (2019)

●ATS and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Official clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute respiratory illness in immunocompetent patients (2018)

Europe

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II) (2018)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID): Guidelines for the management of adult lower respiratory tract infections (2011)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Clinical guideline on pneumonia in adults – Diagnosis and management (2014, updated 2023)

●NICE: Guideline on suspected acute respiratory infection in over 16s – Assessment at first presentation and initial management (2023)

●NICE: Guideline on pneumonia (community-acquired) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)

●British Thoracic Society (BTS): Guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults, update (2009)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS): Adult pneumonia clinical practice guidelines (2017)