Table 1.

Included clinical practice guidelines and number of total, excluded, and included recommendations for each CPGs

	ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT 2017	IDSA/ATS 2016	SHEA/IDSA/AHA/APIC 2014	Total
Total	15	49	63	127
Excluded	4	5	38	47
Included	11	44	25	80

AHA, American Hospital Association; ALAT, Asociacion Latinoamericana del Torax; APIC, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology; ATS, American Thoracic Association; ERS, European Respiratory Society; ESCMID, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; ESICM, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; IDSA, Infectious Diseases Society of America; SHEA, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America