Outcome of older patients with severe pneumonia predicted by recursive partitioning

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1614-1621

  El Solh, Ali A ^a,b   Sikka, Pawan ^a   Ramadan, Fadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification tree; Mechanical ventilation; Older; Outcome; Severe pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035661536     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.t01-1-49269.x     Document Type: Article

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