Morbidity, mortality and clinical presentation of nursing home-acquired pneumonia in a Swedish population

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 306-310

  Sund Levander, Märtha ^a   Örtqvist, Åke ^b   Grodzinsky, Ewa ^c   Klefsgård, Örjan ^d   Wahren, Lis Karin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Dept of Commun Diseases/Prevention ^*  (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Hogland Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SEX RATIO; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0038455820     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540310008456     Document Type: Article

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