Office pediatrics: Current perspectives on the outpatient evaluation and management of lower respiratory infections in children

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-76

  Klig, Jean E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical pneumonia; Bronchiolitis; Lower respiratory infection; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEFDINIR; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CETHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; MACROLIDE; OSELTAMIVIR; SALBUTAMOL; TELITHROMYCIN; ZANAMIVIR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; RHINOVIRUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WHEEZING; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; MICROBIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33646921998     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpo.0000192520.48411.fa     Document Type: Review

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