Point-of-care testing for community-acquired pneumonia: Do we have all the answers?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-42

  Dwyer, Dominic E ^a   Sintchenko, Vitali ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34447550076     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01113.x     Document Type: Article

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