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  • Epidemiološki in družbeni pomen okužb na spodnjih dihalih = Epidemiologic and social significance of lower respiratory tract infections
    Drinovec, Jože
    Lower respiratory tract in fections are most common among children during their first few years of life and the elderly of advanced age, and in both groups, these in fections have the most serious ... consequences. The weekly incidence rate of acute bronchitis in the developed world is 87 per 100,000 population. Eficacy of antibiotic treatment is low and such therapy is rational only in high-risk patients with abundant purulent discharge. Chronic bronchitis represents a considerable social burden and affects between 3 and 6% of population, more often males, and most commonly the elderly. The highestcosts attributable to an acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis result from hospitalizations and absence from work. The incidence o f community-acquired pneumonia is 10 to 12/1,000 popularion per year; it is three times more common in children and in the elderly above 75 years of age. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with substantial mortality: 4% in children below the age of 5 years, 11% in patients above 60 years of age, 17% in patients above 75 years of age and 25% among patients requiring hospitalization. Mortality rate is even higher in nursing home patients than in patients of the same age living in domestic setting. In USA, the indirect costs of treatment of community-acguired pneumonia amount to USD 8.4 billion annually. Costs incurred by loss of income due to absence from work equal - ifnot exceed - indirect costs of treatment. The cost of treatment of community-acquired pneumonia can be reduced by outpatient treatment, reductionof length of hospital stay to a minimum, a rapid switch from parenteral to oral antibiotic therapy in hospitalized patients, and by strict adherence to professional recommendations.
    Vir: Krka v medicini in farmaciji. - ISSN 0351-6040 (Letn. 24, št. 35, 2003, str. 8-14)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2003
    Jezik - slovenski
    COBISS.SI-ID - 16142297

vir: Krka v medicini in farmaciji. - ISSN 0351-6040 (Letn. 24, št. 35, 2003, str. 8-14)

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