A comparison of nursing home-acquired pneumonia patients with patients with community-acquired pneumonia and nursing home patients without pneumonia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-55

  Marrie, Thomas J ^a,b   Blanchard, Wade ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; ERYTHROMYCIN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0031012170     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb00977.x     Document Type: Article

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