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By
Richard Branson, MSc, RRT, Associate Professor of Surgery, Adjunct Faculty, College of Pharmacy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Adjunct Faculty, School of Aerospace Medicine, United States Air Force
Neil MacIntyre, MD, Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Respiratory Care, Clinical Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Thomas Marrie, MD
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The Clinics: Internal Medicine,
Description
Community-acquired pneumonia is an illness with great diversity. This book offers a comprehensive look at the illness. Articles include:
community-acquired pneumonia practice guidelines; management of community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency room; tuberculosis; multicenter,
multinational observational studies; hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; hendra and nipah viruses; utility of administrative data; measuring
quality of care; and the effect of malnutrition on risk and outcome.
Contents
1. Do Guidelines Guide Pneumonia Practice? A Systematic Review of Interventions and Barriers to Best Practice in the Management of Community-Acquired
Pneumonia (Simpson, Marrie, and Majumbdar)2. Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Emergency Room (Marrie and Majumdar)
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Tuberculosis: Still Overlooked as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia?How Not to Miss it (Kunimoto)
4. Multicenter, Multinational
Observational Studies: A New Approach to Studying Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Ramirez)
5. Community Acquired Pneumonia: New Facets
of an Old Disease?Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) (Miedizinski)
6. Hendra and Nipah Viruses: New Zoonatically-Acquired Human
Pathogens (McCormack)
7. The Utility of Administrative Data in Helping the Clinician Understand and Treat Community-Acquired Pneumonia
(Johnson)
8. What Have We Learned About How to Measure Quality of Care for Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Metersky,
Abend, and Meehan)
9. The Effect of Malnutrition on Risk and Outcome of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Loeb and High)
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Paperback, 144 pages, publication date: MAR-2005
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-2718-8
ISBN-10: 1-4160-2718-1
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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