Adult bacterial meningitis-a quality registry study: Earlier treatment and favourable outcome if initial management by infectious diseases physicians

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 560-566

  Grindborg, O ^a   Naucler, P ^a   Sjolin J ^b   Glimaker M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial meningitis; Infectious diseases physicians; Mortality; Outcome; Time to treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT; AGED; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEARING LOSS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE MANAGEMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930798517     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.02.023     Document Type: Article

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