Using severity measures to predict the likelihood of death for pneumonia inpatients

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-31

  Iezzoni, Lisa I ^a   Shwartz, Michael ^b   Ash, Arlene S ^c   Mackiernan, Yevgenia D ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

death rates; pneumonia; severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030031480     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02603481     Document Type: Article

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