Improvement of CRB-65 as a prognostic tool in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) often require hospitalisation. CRB-65 is a simple and useful scoring system to predict mortality. However, prognostic factors such as underlying disease and blood oxygenation are not included despite their potential to increase the perform...

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Autores principales: Dwyer, Richard, Hedlund, Jonas, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Kalin, Mats
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
Materias:
Respiratory Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25478185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2014-000038

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25478185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2014-000038

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