The information and support needs of patients discharged after a short hospital stay for treatment of low-risk Community Acquired Pneumonia: Implications for treatment without admission

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Baldie, Deborah J ^a   Entwistle, Vikki A ^a   Davey, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPECTATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; SELF CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEPHONE; AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 50249085042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-8-11     Document Type: Article

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