Meningitis with direct negative bacteriological examination: Prospective assessment of a decision making tree;Méningites à examen bactériologique direct négatif: Évaluation prospective d'un arbre décisionnel

Presse Medicale

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 235-240

  Boutoille, David ^a   Struillou, Laurence ^a   El Kourt, Dominique ^a   Le Conte, Philippe ^a   Touze, Marie Dominique ^a   Potel, Gilles ^a   Baron, Denis ^a   Raffi, François ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

EID: 1442340017     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0755-4982(04)98543-0     Document Type: Article

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