Predicting mortality of patients hospitalized for acutely exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 272-277

  Fuso, Leonello ^a   Antonelli Incalzi, Raffaele ^a   Pistelli, Riccardo ^a   Muzzolon, Rodolfo ^a   Valente, Salvatore ^a   Pagliari, Gabriella ^a   Gliozzi, Franco ^a   Ciappi, Giuliano ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CILASTATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGITALIS; DIURETIC AGENT; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DRUG MIXTURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0028959394     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(99)80374-X     Document Type: Article

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