Bacterial Meningitis

New bacterial meningitis study findings have been published by Y. Tokuda and colleagues

Published in Hospital Business Week, June 7th, 2009

" To derive and validate a clinical prediction model with high sensitivity for differentiating aseptic meningitis (AM) patients from bacterial meningitis (BM) patients. We developed the model using the derivation cohort in a community rural hospital in Okinawa and assessed its performance using the validation cohort in a metropolitan urban hospital in Tokyo," investigators in Tokyo, Japan report.

"There were 66 (39.5%) and 5 (17.9%) adult patients with BM among the derivation (n = 167) and the validation cohort (n = 28), respectively. Recursive partitioning analysis was used to determine the important classification variables and to develop a sensitive model to safely...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2009-06-07)

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