• Document the type of pneumonia being treated.
  • Aspiration
  • Ventilator-associated
  • Viral
  • Bacterial

• Even in cases of health care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) , if sputum culture reveals an organism, link organism to the pneumonia. Examples include:

  • Methicillin-sensitive S aureus
  • Klebsiella
  • Gram-negative

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