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Clinical Infectious Diseases
Findings from D. Aujesky et al in clinical infectious diseases reported
December 23rd, 2008
According to recent research from Lausanne, Switzerland, "The prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia ranges from rapid resolution of symptoms and full recovery of functional status to the development of severe medical complications and death." "The pneumonia severity index is a rigorously studied prediction rule for prognosis that objectively stratifies patients into quintiles of risk for short-term mortality on the basis of 20 demographic and clinical variables routinely available at presentation. The pneumonia severity index was derived and validated with data on >50,000 patients with community-acquired pneumonia by use of well-accepted methodological standards...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-23)
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