Health care-associated pneumonia is mostly dead long live the acronym PES?

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-240

  Dean, Nathan C ^a,b   Webb, Brandon J ^a  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; MACROLIDE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84926464782     PISSN: 23256621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201501-002ED     Document Type: Editorial

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