Clinical utility of routine CBC testing in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 336-338

  Vukkadala, Neelaysh ^a   Auerbach, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CURB 65 SCORE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEMODILUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC ANEMIA; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85037858848     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12788/jhm.2734     Document Type: Article

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