Quality of care in elder emergency department patients with pneumonia: A prospective cohort study

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Caterino, Jeffrey M ^a   Hiestand, Brian C ^a   Martin, Daniel R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OXYGENATION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44349191575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-8-6     Document Type: Article

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