Predicting positive blood cultures in patients presenting with pneumonia at an Emergency Department in Singapore

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 508-514

  Cham, Gregory ^a   Yan, Sun ^b   Heng, Bee Hoon ^b   Seow, Eillyne ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Emergency department; Positive blood culture; Predictors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CITROBACTER KOSERI; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROCOCCUS; MORGANELLA MORGANII; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGAPORE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67649814844     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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