Guideline for Antibiotic Use in Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia

Lee, Mi Suk; Oh, Jee Youn; Kang, Cheol-In; Kim, Eu Suk; Park, Sunghoon; Rhee, Chin Kook; Jung, Ji Ye; Jo, Kyung-Wook; Heo, Eun Young; Park, Dong-Ah; Suh, Gee Young; Kiem, Sungmin

The qualities of these four domestic and foreign clinical practice guidelines were assessed using an assessment scale developed by the Clinical Practice Guideline Expert Committee of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, namely, the K-AGREE 2.0 (Korean version of AGREE 2.0). Twelve committee members who were educated on the assessment method through a workshop run by experts assessed the selected studies. Two guidelines which the British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults (updated in 2009) and the guidelinea for the management of adult lower respiratory tract infections (updated in 2011) by the Joint Taskforce of the European Respiratory Society and European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases were selected for review. Ultimately a total of four clinical practice guidelines including a domestic guideline published in 2009 and a consensus guideline on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society (IDSA/ATS) in 2007, which were the adaptation targets for domestic guidelines, were selected as adaptation targets.