Adjunctive steroid treatment: Local guidelines and patient outcome in adult bacterial meningitis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 963-968

  Korshin, André ^a   Køster Rasmussen, Rasmus ^b   Meyer, Christian N ^b  

^a SLAGELSE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DENMARK; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PETECHIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36348946813     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701449393     Document Type: Article

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