Use of simple heuristics to target macrolide prescription in children with community-acquired pneumonia

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1005-1008

  Fischer, Joachim E ^a   Steiner, Felicitas ^b   Zucol, Franziska ^b   Berger, Christoph ^b   Martignon, Laura ^c   Bossart, Walter ^a   Altwegg, Martin ^a   Nadal, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE DURATION; FEVER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036821292     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.156.10.1005     Document Type: Article

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