Insufficient evidence to recommend routine adjunctive chest physiotherapy for adults with pneumonia

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 76-77

  Agrafiotis, Michalis ^a  

^a Thriassion General Hospital of Elefsis   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PLACEBO;

ALCOHOLISM; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING; BREATHING EXERCISE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EMBASE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTUBATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPIROMETRY; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953754714     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebm1078     Document Type: Note

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