A shift toward personalized medicine in pneumonia management would involve refining the diagnostic categories to include viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, and noninfectious respiratory disease.
The PCV-13 demonstrated an association with the detection of low-density colonization and resulted in vaccine efficacy against colonization acquisition.
In elderly patients who are admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia with sepsis and do not require critical care unit support, the use of high-dose simvastatin may improve clinical outcomes.
