Community-acquired pneumonia: Cost-effective antimicrobial therapy

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-122

  Cunha, Burke A ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0030021509     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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