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Bacterial Meningitis
New bacterial meningitis study findings have been published by Y. Tokuda and colleagues
June 2nd, 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...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-02)
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