Can the Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score impact ICU antibiotic days?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 331-339

  Swoboda, Sandra M ^a   Dixon, Tara ^b   Lipsett, Pamela A ^a,c  

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

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Nursing ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PULMONARY INFECTION SCORE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947677140     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.331     Document Type: Article

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