External validation of the CURSI criteria (confusion, urea, respiratory rate and shock index) in adults hospitalised for community-acquired pneumonia

BACKGROUND: For patients hospitalised due to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), mortality risk is usually estimated with prognostic scores such as CRB-65 or CURB-65. For elderly patients, a new score referred to as CURSI has been proposed which uses shock index (SI) instead of the blood pressure (B...

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Autores principales: Nüllmann, Harald, Pflug, Marc Andre, Wesemann, Thomas, Heppner, Hans-Jürgen, Pientka, Ludger, Thiem, Ulrich
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24447823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-39

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24447823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-39

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