Characteristic Predictors that Increase the Pretest Probability of Legionnaires Disease: "don't Order a Test Just because You Can" Revisited

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 761-

  Cunha, Burke A ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; FERRITIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; INCIDENCE; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NONHUMAN; PRETEST PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; URINE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84949198829     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000386     Document Type: Letter

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