Health care-associated pneumonia: An evidence-based review

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 689-697

  Attridge, Russell T ^a,b,c   Frei, Christopher R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Guideline concordant antibiotic therapy; Multidrug resistant; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AGE; ASPIRATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBE FEEDING; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WOUND CARE;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79960841550     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.01.023     Document Type: Review

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