The simple and the simpler in pneumonia diagnosis

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Lisboa, Thiago ^a   Rello, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; HOME FOR THE AGED; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; NURSING HOME; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; TRACHEA;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TRACHEA;

EID: 40749115190     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5933     Document Type: Article

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