Management of community-acquired pneumonia: A focus on conversion from hospital to the ambulatory setting

American Journal of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 385-394

  Tan, James S ^a,b   File Jr , Thomas M ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; KETOLIDE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0242300062     PISSN: 11756365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03256666     Document Type: Review

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