Around One In Eight Hospitalized Adults Treated For Pneumonia Inappropriately Diagnosed, Received Unnecessary Antibiotics, Study Finds

Healio (3/25, Feller) reports, “Around one in eight hospitalized adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in a Michigan study were inappropriately diagnosed, and most of those patients received unneeded antibiotics, according to a study” published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Out of “more than 17,000 included patients, 12% met criteria for inappropriate diagnosis of CAP, according to the study, and 87% of those patients received full antibiotic courses. Among those receiving full courses, 2.1% had an antibiotic-associated adverse event.”