Usefulness of the British Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians guidelines in predicting pleural drainage of non-purulent parapneumonic effusions

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 933-937

  Manuel Porcel, José ^a   Vives, Manuel ^b   Esquerda, Aureli ^a   Ruiz, Agustín ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b Division of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empyema; Pleural effusion; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 33645879212     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.06.017     Document Type: Article

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