Could geriatric comprehensive assessment predict the outcome of pneumonia in the very old? [1]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-459

  Pepersack, Thierry ^a   de Breucker, Sandra ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BELGIUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547922727     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm075     Document Type: Letter

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