Tests for urinary tract infection in nursing home residents

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 312, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1687-1688

  Juthani Mehta, Manisha ^a   Datunashvili, Ann ^a   Tinetti, Mary ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIURIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFUSION; DYSURIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PYURIA; SHORT SURVEY; URINALYSIS; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NURSING HOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIURIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PYURIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84908143943     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.13554     Document Type: Short Survey

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