Early predictors of mortality in pneumococcal bacteraemia

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 426-431

  Imran, Mohamed Noor ^a,c   Leng, P H ^b   Yang, S ^a   Kurup, A ^a   Eng, P ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Anion gap; Low leukocyte count; Malignancy; Mortality; S. pneumoniae bacteraemia; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANION GAP; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 24744450792     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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