Society guideline links: Hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults

Introduction — 

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: Community-acquired pneumonia in adults".)

International

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)/European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)/Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax (ALAT): International guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia (2017)

United States

●National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN): Educational roadmap on pneumonia (ventilator-associated [VAP] and non-ventilator-associated pneumonia [PNEU]) event

●Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA)/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)/Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC): Practice recommendation on strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals, update (2022)

●IDSA and American Thoracic Society (ATS): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia (2016)

Europe

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)/European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)/Asociación Latinoamericana del Tórax (ALAT): International guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia (2017)

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 (hospital-acquired) – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS): Guidelines for the management of pneumonia in adults (2024)