Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

EL Taylor; TJ Marrie; MJ Fine; DS Obroskyl; WN Kapoor; C Coley; DE Singer

doi:10.1155/1999/414595

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Jan 1999)

Observations from a Multicentre Study on the Use of the Sputum Specimen in Patients Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

EL Taylor,
TJ Marrie,
MJ Fine,
DS Obroskyl,
WN Kapoor,
C Coley,
DE Singer

Affiliations

EL Taylor: Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University and the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
TJ Marrie: Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University and the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
MJ Fine: Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University and the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
DS Obroskyl: Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
WN Kapoor: Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
C Coley: General Internal Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
DE Singer: General Internal Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/1999/414595
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 39 – 46

Abstract

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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.

Published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1180-2332 (Print)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/9575

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