Treatments and outcomes of nursing-home-acquired pneumonia

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 82-87

  Thompson, Roberts ^a,b  

^a United Health Services Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; NEW YORK; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030883434     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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