Hospital-acquired pneumonia differential diagnosis

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Editor(s)-in-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. ; Philip Marcus, M.D., M.P.H.

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Hospital-acquired pneumonia should be differentiated from other conditions that cause fever, cough, chest pain, tachycardia, and leukocytosis in hospitalized patients, such as atelectasis, congestive heart failure, pulmonary embolism, aspiration pneumonitis, among others.