A cluster of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome in a chest ward in southern Taiwan

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1228-1231

  Wang, Yi Hsi ^a   Lin, An Shen ^a   Chao, Tung Ying ^a   Lu, Sheng Nan ^a   Liu, Jien Wei ^a   Chen, Shun Sheng ^a   Lin, Meng Chih ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Health care worker; Intubation; Old age; SARS; Southern Taiwan

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIWAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY CARE UNITS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN;

EID: 3042593818     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2311-8     Document Type: Article

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