Clinical characteristics of health care-associated pneumonia in a Korean teaching hospital

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1729-1735

  Park, Hye Kyeong ^a   Song, Jae Uk ^a   Um, Sang Won ^a   Koh, Won Jung ^a   Suh, Gee Young ^a   Chung, Man Pyo ^a   Kim, Hojoong ^a   Kwon, O Jung ^a   Jeon, Kyeongman ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Community acquired infection; Hospital; Outcomes; Pneumonia; Severity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77957105968     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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