Outpatient vs. inpatient treatment of community-acquired pneumonia

Family Practice Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 41-44

  Ebell, Mark H ^a,b  

^a College of Human Medicine ^*

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646472093     PISSN: 10695648     EISSN: 15311929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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