title: Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy. Management of serious infections. Part II: Amenable infections and models for delivery. Pneumonia and chronic lung disease.
abstract: The need for medical support is the determining factor when selecting patients with acute pneumonia for outpatient therapy. Patients are often too old or too sick for early discharge, but a large subgroup can continue parenteral therapy as outpatients. Other pneumonia patients, as well as patients with infectious flares of chronic lung disease, can be treated with outpatient therapy alone.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Trowbridge
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010045:Outpatients; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents