Acid-suppressive medication and hospital-acquired pneumonia [2]

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1415-1416

  McCullough, Patrick ^a   Benson, Donald ^a  

^a Drake Center for Rehabilitative and Restorative Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; LETTER; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH TUBE; TUBE FEEDING; ACID ASPIRATION; BODY POSTURE; CROSS INFECTION; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; HUMAN; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; SWALLOWING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CROSS INFECTION; DEGLUTITION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PNEUMONIA; POSTURE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY ASPIRATION; RISK FACTORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349931464     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1414     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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