Prior outpatient antibiotic use as predictor for microbial aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia: Hospital-based study

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 405-410

  Van De Garde, Ewoudt M W ^a,b   Endeman, Henrik ^a   Van Hemert, Remco N ^a   Voorn, G Paul ^a   Deneer, Vera H M ^a   Leufkens, Hubert G M ^b   Van Den Bosch, Jules M M ^a   Biesma, Douwe H ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Antibiotics; Diagnosis; Outcome assessment; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; NORFLOXACIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PHARMACY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 40049086114     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00228-007-0407-0     Document Type: Article

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