The Community Acquired Pneumonia guideline implements parts of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults, updated by the 2003 Update of Practice Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Immunocompetent Adults. See also Community-acquired pneumonia in adults: guidelines for management. (1998) . In the SAGE Project, we fully implemented triage and non-ICU inpatient treatment. We also worked on order sets for Ambulatory treatment, ICU treatment, and Hospital Discharge.

All the details of the encoding in Protégé for Community Acquired Pneumonia have been generated as a web page [click here].

This guideline exemplar uses 180 Criteria in 5 Recommendation Sets with 18 Decision Nodes, 13 Context Nodes, and 45 Action Nodes.

This PowerPoint Presentation shows a typical patient presenting in an emergency room, with the SAGE CAP guideline in action: [ppt].


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