Physician practice patterns: Chest X-ray ordering for the evaluation of acute cough illness in adults

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 599-605

  Aagaard, Eva ^a,b   Maselli, Judy ^a   Gonzales, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box 0320 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cough; Decision making; Pneumonia; Radiography (thoracic)

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WINTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33750897913     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X06295357     Document Type: Article

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