What are the indicators for evaluating a patient with cough for pertussis?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 74-75

  Brown, Maureen O'Reilly ^a   St Anna, Leilani ^b  

^a Swedish Family Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

APNEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PERTUSSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFANT; TIME;

ADULT; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TIME FACTORS; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 21644458174     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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