Quality-of-life assessment in an outpatient parenteral antibiotic program

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1851-1855

  Goodfellow, Alan F ^a   Wai, Amy O ^a   Frighetto, Luciana ^a   Marra, Carlo A ^a   Ferreira, Barbara M ^a   Chase, M Lynn ^a   Nicol, Ruth E ^a   Leong, Carole A ^a   Tomlinson, Sally ^a   Jewesson, Peter J ^a,b  

^a Clinical Services Unit Pharmaceutical Sciences Vancouver Acute Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAIN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; AMBULATORY CARE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CANADA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036897342     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1C153     Document Type: Article

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