Community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in the elderly. Clinical features and prognosis;Neumonia adquirida en la comunidad en ancianos que requieren internacion. Cuadro clinico y pronostico

Medicina

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 731-738

  Fuenzalida, Alejandro Diaz ^a   Vera, Claudia ^a   Santamarina, Joaquin ^a   Izarduy, Lucas ^a   Bagnasco, Roberto ^a   Grinspon, Sebastian ^a   Khoury, Marina ^a   Rodriguez, Carlos H ^a   Luna, Carlos M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Elderly; Mortality; Pneumonia; Prognosis; Severity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGENTINA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0042406837     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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