Significance of the progression of respiratory symptoms for predicting community-acquired pneumonia in general practice

Respirology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 969-974

  Nakanishi, Masanori ^a   Yoshida, Yoshimasa ^a   Takeda, Nobuya ^a   Hirana, Hirohumi ^a   Horita, Takahiro ^a   Shimizu, Kazuhiko ^a   Hiratani, Kazuyuki ^a   Toyoda, Shigeo ^a   Matsumura, Takayuki ^a   Shinno, Eizi ^a   Kawai, Satoru ^a   Futamura, Akihiro ^a   Ota, Masanari ^a   Natazuka, Toshiki ^a  

^a Shinseikai Toyama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

acute bronchitis; lower respiratory tract infection; lung disease; symptom and sign

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEVER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINORRHEA; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; WHEEZING;

BACTERIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COUGH; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEVER; HUMANS; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

EID: 77954950398     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2010.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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