Adult bacterial meningitis: Earlier treatment and improved outcome following guideline revision promoting prompt lumbar puncture

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1162-1169

  Glimaker, Martin ^a   Johansson, Bibi ^a   Grindborg, Örjan ^a   Bottai, Matteo ^b   Lindquist, Lars ^a   Sjölin, Jan ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

bacterial meningitis; guidelines; lumbar puncture; outcome; time to treatment

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CORTICOSTEROID; MEROPENEM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SWEDEN; THERAPY DELAY; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PUNCTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926636341     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ011     Document Type: Article

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