A new preadmission staging system for predicting inpatient mortality from HIV-associated Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the early highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 1081-1086

  Arozullah, Ahsan M ^b   Yarnold, Paul R ^b   Weinstein, Robert A ^b   Nwadiaro, Nduka ^b   McIlraith, Thomas B ^b   Chmiel, Joan S ^b   Sipler, Alison M ^b   Chan, Cheeling ^b   Goetz, Matthew B ^b   Schwartz, David N ^b   Bennett, Charles L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAGING; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 0034014299     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.161.4.9906072     Document Type: Article

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