Usefulness of clinical scores to predict outcome in bacterial meningitis

Infection

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 239-243

  Merkelbach, S ^a   Rohn S ^a   Konig J ^b   Muller M ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032825165     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s150100050019     Document Type: Article

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