Nursing Home-Associated Pneumonia

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 553-565

  Mylotte, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GATIFLOXACIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGED; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; MORBIDITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VACCINATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34447280393     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2007.02.003     Document Type: Review

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