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 ...

Pathophysiology connects the science of disease to the art of nursing care, giving students a framework to interpret patient symptoms accurately. From pneumonia’s alveolar inflammation to ...

Objective: To characterize care of nursing home residents who became ill with nursing home–acquired pneumonia (NHAP) in a group-model, nonprofit HMO, and to pilot-test a strategy to implement ...

A Virginia VA hospital found it could dramatically reduce its cases of pneumonia with a surprisingly simple and affordable change: Getting patients to brush their teeth. Beginning in late 2016, nurses ...

Nursing home-acquired pneumonia (NHAP) is the leading cause of death among long-term care residents. PSI class V showed the highest Youden index (0.45), specificity (66.7%), positive predictive value ...

Pneumonia is a common lung infection that can make breathing difficult and, in some cases, become life-threatening. It happens when the air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid or pus. Each year, about ...