Is it time to rethink the urea criterion in CURB-65? [2]

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1321-1322

  Kamath, A V ^a   Myint, P K ^a,b   Vowler, S L ^c   Harrison, B D W ^a,b  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UREA;

AGED; BREATHING RATE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFUSION; DEATH; DEHYDRATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UREA;

EID: 33750733258     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.06.00019106     Document Type: Letter

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