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The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) as a predictor of short-term mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: A single-centre observational study

BACKGROUND: Automated laboratory-based prediction models may support clinical decisions in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (BSIs), which carry a particularly high mortality. Small studies indicated that the laboratory-based Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is a risk factor...

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Autores principales: Roth, Jan A., Widmer, Andreas F., Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah, Dangel, Marc, Frei, Reno, Battegay, Manuel, Hug, Balthasar L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28414786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175669