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This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults".)
International
●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Guidelines on use of corticosteroids in sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and community-acquired pneumonia, focused update (2024)
•SCCM and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II), 2017 (published 2018)
●European Respiratory Society (ERS), ESICM, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), and Latin American Thoracic Association (ALAT): Guidelines for the management of severe community-acquired pneumonia (2023)
●A consensus statement regarding initial strategies for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompromised adults (2020)
United States
●Endemic Mycoses Diagnostic Algorithm Subject Matter Expert Group: Clinical testing guidance for coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis in patients with community-acquired pneumonia for primary and urgent care providers (2024)
●American Thoracic Society (ATS): An official clinical practice guideline on nucleic acid-based testing for noninfluenza viral pathogens in adults with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (2021)
●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Clinical policy on critical issues in the management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with community-acquired pneumonia (2020)
●American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST): Guideline and expert panel report on adult outpatients with acute cough due to suspected pneumonia or influenza (2019)
●ATS and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): An official clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (2019)
Europe
●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Guidelines on use of corticosteroids in sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and community-acquired pneumonia, focused update (2024)
•SCCM and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II), 2017 (published 2018)
●European Respiratory Society (ERS), ESICM, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and Latin American Thoracic Association (ALAT): Guidelines for the management of severe community-acquired pneumonia (2023)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Clinical guideline on pneumonia in adults – Diagnosis and management (2014, updated 2023)
●NICE: Guideline on pneumonia (community-acquired) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)
●NICE: Quality standard on pneumonia in adults (2016)
●British Thoracic Society (BTS): Guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults, update (2009)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS): Guidelines for the management of pneumonia in adults (2024)
