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Community-Acquired
Reports summarize community-acquired research from F.F. Zuberi and co-authors
May 13th, 2008
"Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. To prospectively compare 30-day mortality with CURB65 and CRB65 scores and the three mortality risk groups (low, intermediate and high) based on these scores in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)," investigators in Karachi, Pakistan report. "Longitudinal observational cohort study of adult in-patients fulfilling the definition of CAP between October 2006 and May 2007. A total of 137 patients was included. The 30-day mortality was 13.1%. Areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve for CURB65 and CRB65 scores were respectively 0.863 and 0.835. Odds of death among patients in the high...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-13)
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