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The change in age distribution of CAP population in Korea with an estimation of clinical implications of increasing age threshold of current CURB65 and CRB65 scoring system

BACKGROUND: CURB65 and CRB65 score are simple and popular methods to estimate the mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Although there has been a global increase in life expectancy and population ageing, we are still using the same age threshold derived from patients in late...

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Autores principales: Kim, Byunghyun, Kim, Joonghee, Jo, You Hwan, Lee, Jae Hyuk, Hwang, Ji Eun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6695142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31415581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219367