Clinical features and the role of atypical pathogens in nursing and healthcare-associated pneumonia (NHCAP): Differences between a teaching university hospital and a community hospital

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 585-594

  Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   Kawai, Yasuhiro ^a   Akaike, Hiroto ^a   Ouchi, Kazunobu ^a   Hayashi, Toshikiyo ^a   Kurihara, Takeyuki ^a   Okimoto, Niro ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical pathogens; Community hospital; Community acquired pneumonia; MDR pathogens; Nursing and healthcare associated pneumonia; University hospital

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NURSING AND HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; RISK FACTOR; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858245655     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6475     Document Type: Article

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