Pneumonia (infectious disease)

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Treatment
Review: pneumococcal vaccination does not prevent pneumonia, bacteraemia, bronchitis, or mortality

Lisa Cicutto
Evid. Based Nurs. 2009; 12: 74. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Review: inhaled corticosteroids do not reduce mortality but increase pneumonia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Susan A Bruce
Evid. Based Nurs. 2009; 12: 76. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Qualitative
Patients with end-stage COPD did not ask for help because they felt normal and did not realise the situation could be improved

Karen Moore Schaefer
Evid. Based Nurs. 2009; 12: 95. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Review: early feeding and delayed feeding after PEG placement do not differ for complications or death within 72 hours

Robert Lindeboom
Evid. Based Nurs. 2009; 12: 50. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Review: enhanced oral hygiene prevents respiratory infection in elderly people in hospitals and nursing homes

Cindy Doucette
Evid. Based Nurs. 2009; 12: 55. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Normal food at will and nil-by-mouth enteral feeding after major upper GI surgery did not differ for mortality or morbidity

Mary M Brennan
Evid. Based Nurs. 2009; 12: 21. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Spontaneous awakening trials plus spontaneous breathing trials improved weaning from mechanical ventilation

Kelley Kilpatrick
Evid. Based Nurs. 2008; 11: 81. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Review: prone positioning improved oxygenation on ventilation more than supine positioning in ARDS

Nicky Hewitt, Tracey Bucknall
Evid. Based Nurs. 2008; 11: 82. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Review: routine NG decompression after abdominal surgery delays return of bowel function and increases pulmonary complications

Mary M Brennan
Evid. Based Nurs. 2008; 11: 55. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment
Decontamination of the nasopharynx and oropharynx with chlorhexidine reduced nosocomial infections in cardiac surgery

Gina Maiocco, Jane Brosnahan
Evid. Based Nurs. 2007; 10: 115. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]