Community Pneumonia Practice Standard Mandates: Can't See the Forest for the Trees

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 986-988

  Kelen, Gabor D ^a   Rothman, Richard E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; JOINT COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747757573     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.07.020     Document Type: Editorial

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