APACHE II score and primary liver cancer history had risk of hospital mortality in patients with pyogenic liver abscess

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 498-502

  Hsieh, C B ^a   Tzao, C ^a   Yu, C Y ^a   Chen, C J ^a   Chang, W K ^a   Chu, C H ^a   Chou, S J ^a   Tung, H J ^a   Yu, J C ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

APACHE II score; Mortality; Pyogenic liver abscess

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; APACHE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VALIDATION STUDY;

APACHE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33748485142     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.03.020     Document Type: Article

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