Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
OBJECTIVE: To describe the use of sputum Gram stain and culture in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and to determine the factors that are associated with obtaining sputum for culture.
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| spelling | doaj-art-6986f915e096402aa06de5adb8af7dd72025-02-03T06:12:15ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases1180-23321999-01-01101394610.1155/1999/414595Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired PneumoniaEL Taylor0TJ Marrie1MJ Fine2DS Obroskyl3WN Kapoor4C Coley5DE Singer6Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University and the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaDepartment of Medicine, Dalhousie University and the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaDepartment of Medicine, Dalhousie University and the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USADivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USAGeneral Internal Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAGeneral Internal Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAOBJECTIVE: To describe the use of sputum Gram stain and culture in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and to determine the factors that are associated with obtaining sputum for culture.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1999/414595 |
| spellingShingle | EL Taylor TJ Marrie MJ Fine DS Obroskyl WN Kapoor C Coley DE Singer Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| title | Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_full | Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_fullStr | Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_short | Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia |
| title_sort | observations from a multicentre study on the use of the sputum specimen in patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia |
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