Safely increasing the proportion of patients with community-acquired pneumonia treated as outpatients: An interventional trial

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1350-1356

  Atlas, Steven J ^a,b   Benzer, Theodore I ^b   Borowsky, Leila H ^a   Chang, YuChiao ^a   Burnham, Diann C ^a   Metlay, Joshua P ^a   Halm, Ethan A ^a   Singer, Daniel E ^a  

^a General Medicine Division

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AMBULATORY CARE; BOSTON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031806573     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.12.1350     Document Type: Article

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