Studying the burden of community-acquired pneumonia in adults aged ≥ 50 years in primary health care: An observational study in rural Crete, Greece

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bertsias, Antonios ^a   Tsiligianni, Ioanna G ^a   Duijker, George ^a   Siafakas, Nikolaos ^a   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VACCINATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING;

EID: 84904382767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.17     Document Type: Article

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