Search Strategy
A query of the US National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE
database was used to identify original research articles related
to health care-associated pneumonia. The medicalsubject heading (MeSH) term “pneumonia” was combined
with a combination of key words (“healthcare-associated”
or “health care associated” or “health-care-associated”
or “health-care associated”) to return a listing of 99
MEDLINE-indexed articles. Forty-three articles were directly
relevant to health care-associated
pneumonia, and 12 of these
were original research articles. A
review of each publication’s bibliography
was performed to identify
further pertinent articles.