Sputum examination in the clinical management of community-acquired pneumonia;Exame do escarro no manejo clínico dos pacientes com pneumonia adquirida na comunidade

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 152-158

  Signori, Leonardo Gilberto Haas ^a   Ferreira, Maurício Weyh ^a   Vieira, Luiz Carlos Hack Radünz ^a   Müller, Karen Reetz ^a   De Mattos, Waldo Luís Leite Dias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre FFFCMPA ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Pneumonia etiology; Sputum

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BRAZIL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SPUTUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 42049099497     PISSN: 18063713     EISSN: 18063713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1806-37132008000300005     Document Type: Article

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