Association of community-acquired pneumonia with antipsychotic drug use in elderly patients: A nested case-control study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 418-425

  Trifirò, Gianluca ^a   Gambassi, Giovanni ^b   Sen, Elif F ^a   Caputi, Achille P ^c   Bagnardi, Vincenzo ^d   Brea, Jose ^e   Sturkenboom, Miriam C J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYROPHENONE DERIVATIVE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PHENOTHIAZINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951250998     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-152-7-201004060-00006     Document Type: Article

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