Telemedicine: The future of outpatient therapy?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  Eron, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT PARENTERAL ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TELEMEDICINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG MONITORING; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77957849675     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653524     Document Type: Review

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