Adding fuel to the flames? It is time to leave HCAP

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1309-1310

  Ewig, Santiago ^a   Welte, Tobias ^b  

^a Augusta Kranken Anstalt   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOSE FEEDING; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK FACTOR;

CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84864617002     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2012.07.002     Document Type: Editorial

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