Bacterial meningitis in emergency medicine. Factors associated to delay of antimicrobial therapy;Meningitis purulenta en urgencias. Factores asociados al retraso del tratamiento antibiotico

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 302-306

  Gutiérrez, Alfonso ^a   De Los Ángeles Ramos, María ^a   Sanz, Juan Carlos ^a   Bernal, Ana ^a   Agirrezabal, Jaione ^a   Casado, Yolanda ^a   Martínez, Mikel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE BASURTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial therapy; Bacterial meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031784477     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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