Community-acquired pneumonia guidelines - An international comparison: A view from europe

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 3 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Woodhead, Mark ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLAVULANIC ACID; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDICATION; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITAL CARE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORGANIZATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ITALY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SPAIN;

EID: 0031918453     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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