The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America

The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America

John S. Bradley,1,a Carrie L. Byington,2,a Samir S. Shah,3,a Brian Alverson,4 Edward R. Carter,5 Christopher Harrison,6 Sheldon L. Kaplan,7 Sharon E. Mace,8 George H. McCracken Jr,9 Matthew R. Moore,10 Shawn D. St Peter,11 Jana A. Stockwell,12 and Jack T. Swanson13

1Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Hospital of San Diego, San Diego, California;
2Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; 3Departments of Pediatrics, and Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
4Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island; 5Pulmonary Division, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle Washington;
6Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri; 7Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas;
8Department of Emergency Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; 9Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas;
10Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 11Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri;

IDSA/PIDS have recently released a new guideline on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age.
http://www.idsociety.org/uploadedFiles/IDSA/Guidelines-Patient_Care/PDF_Library/2011%20CAP%20in%20Children.pdf