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Pneumonia severity, comorbidity and 1-year mortality in predominantly older adults with community-acquired pneumonia: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: In patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), short-term mortality is largely dependent on pneumonia severity, whereas long-term mortality is considered to depend on comorbidity. However, evidence indicates that severity scores used to assist management decisions at disease onset...

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Autores principales: Wesemann, Thomas, Nüllmann, Harald, Pflug, Marc Andre, Heppner, Hans Jürgen, Pientka, Ludger, Thiem, Ulrich
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4304774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0730-x