Treatment of nursing home-acquired pneumonia: Dogma vs. Data

American Family Physician

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 946-948

  Mylotte, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSING HOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; AGED; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOME FOR THE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAUSALITY; CROSS INFECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 67649297943     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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