Impact of chest CT on the clinical management of immunocompetent emergency department patients with chest radiographic findings of pneumonia

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 383-388

  Banker, Piyush D ^a   Jain, Vineet R ^a   Haramati, Linda B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest CT; Immunocompetent; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NIGHT SWEAT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36049051008     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0659-0     Document Type: Article

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