2010 French SPILF-AFSSAPS guiding criteria for Streptococcuspneumoniaeacute community-acquired pneumonia: Evaluation in patients of the PACSCAN-ESCAPED cohort

•The 2010 SPILF-AFSSAPS guiding criteria defining Streptococcuspneumoniaeacute community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are open to broad interpretation by physicians.•These criteria were observed in 2–100% of patients presenting with a suspicion of CAP at the emergency departments of four Parisian university hospitals.•As such, these criteria are inadequate to precisely guide physicians towards pneumococcal etiology.