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Table 1 Appropriate inpatient clinical syndromes according to PPID (8) and the distribution of patients admitted to the general medicine teaching service from July through October of 2002.

From: Killing Bugs at the Bedside: A prospective hospital survey of how frequently personal digital assistants provide expert recommendations in the treatment of infectious diseases

Major Clinical Syndromes

Patients

Fever

 

Fever of Unknown Origin (Neutropenia)

6 (2)

Upper Respiratory

 

Pharyngitis

2

Infections of head and neck

1

Pleuropulmonary

 

Acute Bronchitis

16

Chronic Bronchitis

20

Acute Pneumonia

31

Empyema

2

Chronic Pneumonia

1

Cystic Fibrosis

1

Urinary Tract

22

Sepsis Syndrome

3

Peritonitis and Other Intra-abdominal Infections

3

Cardiovascular

 

Endocarditis

2

Central Nervous System

 

Acute Meningitis

6

Encephalitis

1

Brain Abscess

1

Soft Tissue

 

Cellulitis and subcutaneous Tissue Infections

40

Lymphadenitis and Lymphangitis

2

Gastrointestinal

 

Inflammatory Enteritides

20

Abdominal Symptoms and Fever

7

Bone and Joint

 

Infectious Arthritis

1

Osteomyelitis

8

STD

 

Prostatitis, Epididymitis and Orchitis

1

Eye

 

Peri-ocular Infections

2

HIV

 

Pulmonary Manifestations in HIV

5

CNS Manifestations in HIV

1