Descriptive epidemiology of hospitalized patients with bacterial nosocomial pneumonia who experience 30-day readmission in the US, 2014-2019.

One in seven survivors of a hospitalization complicated by NP requires an acute rehospitalization within 30 days. However, few of these readmissions had a principal diagnosis of pneumonia, irrespective of NP type. Of the 5% of NP subjects with RaP, the plurality initially suffered from nvHABP.