Clinical policy for management and risk stratification of community-acquired pneumonia in patients hospitalized on the basis of conventional admission criteria;Condotta clinica e stratificazione del rischio in pazienti ospedalizzati secondo criteri convenzionali per polmonite acquisita in comunità

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 199-203

  Putinati, Stefano ^a,b   Ballerin, Licia ^a   Piattella, Marco ^a   Ritrovato, Lucia ^a   Zabini, Franco ^a   Potena, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Hospitalization; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0038047709     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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