Nursing home-acquired pneumonia: Update on treatment options

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 377-390

  Mylotte, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GATIFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; OXYGENATION; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DEMENTIA; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NURSING HOMES; OXYGEN; PNEUMONIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745877637     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 1170229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200623050-00002     Document Type: Review

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