Better outcomes from pneumococcal pneumonia: How good is your care?

Chest

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-8

  Waterer, Grant W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; MACROLIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FLUID BALANCE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84903827424     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-0171     Document Type: Editorial

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