By GSN Staff
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)—which account for 20% to 25% of hospital-acquired infections—should be treated with shorter courses of antibiotics, according to new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Thoracic Society (Clin Infect Dis 2016 Jul 13. [Epub ahead of print]).
The new guidelines recommend seven days or less of antibiotics for most of these infections, which reflects a