Use of diagnostic tests for presumed lower respiratory tract infection in long-term care facilities

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1365-1370

  Mubareka, Samira ^a,f   Duckworth, Heather ^a   Cheang, Mary ^a   Loeb, Mark ^b   Simor, Andrew ^d   Liu, Barbara ^d   McNeil, Shelley ^e   Lewis, David ^c   Nicolle, Lindsay E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Long term care facilities; Oximetry; Pneumonia; Sputum culture

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONG TERM CARE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PULSE OXIMETRY; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MANITOBA; ONTARIO; OXIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548284825     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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