Journal article
Limited evidence for diagnosing bacterial skin infections in older adults in primary care: systematic review
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BACKGROUND:Older adults with bacterial skin infections may present with atypical symptoms, making diagnosis difficult. There is limited authoritative guidance on how older adults in the community present with bacterial skin infections. To date there have been no systematic reviews assessing the diagnostic value of symptoms and signs in identifying bacterial skin infections in older adults in the community. METHODS:We searched Medline and Medline in process, Embase and Web of Science, from inc...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ National Institute for Health Research
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Evidence Synthesis Working Group - Project number 390
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Geriatrics Journal website
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 45
- Publication date:
- 2019-02-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-02-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2318
- Pmid:
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30777025
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:975926
- UUID:
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uuid:cd118f77-5bd3-4ee2-934b-9b603c8560cd
- Local pid:
- pubs:975926
- Deposit date:
- 2019-04-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Gbinigie et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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