Microbiological testing of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: an international study

Carugati, Manuela; Aliberti, Stefano; Reyes, Luis Felipe; Franco Sadud, Ricardo; Irfan, Muhammad; Prat, Cristina; Soni, Nilam J.; Faverio, Paola; Gori, Andrea; Blasi, Francesco; Restrepo, Marcos I.

We performed a secondary analysis of an international, multicentre, observational, prospective cohort study using the Global Initiative for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia (GLIMP) database [13] . GLIMP was conducted among 222 hospitals in 54 countries over 4 days, with 1 day per month randomly selected during March, April, May and June 2015. All adult patients (aged >18 years) hospitalised for CAP at the participating centres during the four study days were screened by GLIMP investigators and included in this secondary analysis. Patients hospitalised with a diagnosis of hospital-acquired or ventilator-associated pneumonia were excluded. The GLIMP coordinating centre was located at the University of Texas Health San Antonio (San Antonio, TX, USA). The coordinating centre received expedited project approval by the institutional review board (number HSC20150184E). The review board waived the need for receipt of informed consent due to the nature of the study. Institutional review board approval was obtained by the site investigators at each individual centre. A detailed description of the GLIMP organisation and methodologies has been previously published [13] .