Treatment of Nursing Home Residents with Dementia and Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in the United States and the Netherlands: An Ocean Apart

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 691-699

  Van Der Steen, Jenny T ^a,d   Kruse, Robin L ^b   Ooms, Marcel E ^a   Ribbe, Miel W ^a   Van Der Wal, Gerrit ^a   Heintz, Lawrence L ^c   Mehr, David R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dementia; Lower respiratory tract infection; Palliative treatment; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; MACROLIDE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MISSOURI; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PALLIATIVE CARE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342579319     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52204.x     Document Type: Article

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