Admission chest radiograph lacks sensitivity in the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 337, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 236-240

  Hagaman, Jared T ^a   Rouan, Gregory W ^a   Shipley, Ralph T ^b   Panos, Ralph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial diagnosis; Chest radiograph; Community acquired pneumonia; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 65549133383     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31818ad805     Document Type: Article

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