Publications by authors named "Kiyotaka Ono"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to analyze how antimicrobial treatment affects patients with nursing and healthcare-associated pneumonia (NHCAP) based on their risk for drug-resistant pathogens (RDRP).
- A retrospective review of 220 hospitalized NHCAP patients showed no significant mortality difference between those receiving narrow versus broad-spectrum antibiotics, with 11.3% of patients dying in-hospital after improvement.
- The findings suggest that broad-spectrum antibiotics may not be necessary for treating NHCAP, as patients can still experience other serious complications leading to death despite improved pneumonia symptoms.
Objectives: To determine whether the prevalence of gram-negative bacilli (GNB; , , and ) in sputum and urine specimens from outpatients and inpatients differed by season and according to temperature and humidity changes.
Methods: In this retrospective study, microbiologic data for adult patients from 2008 to 2019 were retrieved from the electronic database of a hospital in Japan. Data were categorized by specimen type (sputum and urine) and specimen collection (outpatient and inpatient).
Objectives: To determine the usefulness of the pneumococcal urinary antigen test (PUT) and to describe the characteristics of pneumococcal pneumonia.
Methods: In this retrospective study, we examined the effects of prior antibiotic treatment, pneumonia onset period, and sputum quality on the results of PUT. Clinical information was collected via medical records from all adult patients who were hospitalized at the Fujita Health University Bantane Hospital with "pneumonia" as a new diagnosis from April 2015 to March 2018.