Use and limitations of clinical and radiologic diagnosis of pneumonia

Seminars in Respiratory Infections

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 72-79

  Mabie, Matthew ^b   Wunderink, Richard G ^a  

^a Physicians Research Network   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037780630     PISSN: 08820546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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