Adults Hospitalized With Pneumonia in the United States: Incidence, Epidemiology, and Mortality

Understanding the burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is critical to allocate resources for prevention, management, and research. The objectives of this study were to define incidence, epidemiology, and mortality of adult patients hospitalized with CAP in the city of Louisville, and to estimate burden of CAP in the US adult population. This was a prospective population-based cohort study of adult residents in Louisville, Kentucky, from...