Primary early thoracoscopy and reduction in length of hospital stay and additional procedures among children with complicated pneumonia: Results of a multicenter retrospective cohort study

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 675-681

  Shah, Samir S ^a,b   DiCristina, Cara M ^a   Bell, Louis M ^a,b   Ten Have, Tom ^b   Metlay, Joshua P ^b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; TUBE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46949084379     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.162.7.675     Document Type: Article

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