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Demographics, guidelines, and clinical experience in severe community-acquired pneumonia

Mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who require intubation or support with inotropes in an intensive care unit setting remains extremely high (up to 50%). Systematic use of objective severity-of-illness criteria, such as the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), British Thoracic...

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Autor principal: Rello, Jordi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19105795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7025