How Is Pneumonia Diagnosed in Clinical Stroke Research?

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1202-1209

  Kishore, Amit K ^a   Vail, Andy ^a   Chamorro, Angel ^b   Garau, Javier ^c   Hopkins, Stephen J ^a   Di Napoli, Mario ^d   Kalra, Lalit ^e   Langhorne, Peter ^f   Montaner, Joan ^g,h   Roffe, Christine ⁱ   Rudd, Anthony G ^j   Tyrrell, Pippa J ^a   Van De Beek, Diederik ^k   Woodhead, Mark ^l   Meisel, Andreas ^m   Smith, Craig J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL MÚTUA DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^d SAN CAMILLO DE LELLIS HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^h Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla   (Spain)

ⁱ KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^m CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

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Author keywords

diagnosis; hemorrhage; pneumonia; stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CLINICIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ISCHEMIC STROKE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMPLICATION; STROKE;

HUMANS; PNEUMONIA; STROKE;

EID: 84933510008     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007843     Document Type: Review

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