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Average per-patient, per-month (pppm) costs before, during, and after the development of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) among Veterans Health Administration-eligible persons who CAP, 2011 (n = 34,049). 52 of 34,101 patients were missing valid economic data from the HERC dataset. The “CAP episode” was defined as the 90 days following the diagnosis of CAP—including the diagnosis date. Data were adjusted to account for local variations in costs
