Does this patient have community-acquired pneumonia? Diagnosing pneumonia by history and physical examination

JAMA

Volumn 278, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 1440-1445

  Metlay, Joshua P ^a,c   Kapoor, Wishwa N ^b   Fine, Michael J ^b,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; BRONCHITIS; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0030713041     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1997.03550170070035     Document Type: Review

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