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Critical Illness Scoring Systems: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II, and Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment to Predict the Clinical Outcomes in Scrub Typhus Patients with Organ Dysfunctions

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Scrub typhus (ST) is an acute infectious disease of variable severity caused by Orientia (formerly Rickettsia) tsutsugamushi. The disease can be complicated by organ dysfunctions and the case fatality rate (CFR) is approximately 15%, which further rises with the development of se...

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Autores principales: Balasubramanian, Prasanth, Sharma, Navneet, Biswal, Manisha, Bhalla, Ashish, Kumar, Susheel, Kumar, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405280
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_254_18