Treating the Immunocompetent Patient Who Presents with an Upper Respiratory Infection: Pharyngitis, Sinusitis, and Bronchitis

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-58

  Mostov, Perry D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CODEINE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GUAIFENESIN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MACROLIDE; PELARGONIUM SIDOIDES EXTRACT; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSCESS; ADD ON THERAPY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRONCHITIS; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMON COLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGITIS; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHINOSINUSITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHITIS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; PHARYNGITIS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SINUSITIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 34247565577     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2006.09.009     Document Type: Review

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