Predictive model for community acquired bacteremia in patients from an Internal Medicine Unit;Bacteriemia adquirida en la comunidad: Elaboración de un modelo de predicción clínica en pacientes ingresados en un servicio de medicina interna

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 241-246

  Lizarralde Palacios, Eva ^a   Gutiérrez Macías, Alfonso ^b   Martínez Odriozola, Pedro ^a   Vicario, Ricardo Franco ^a   García Jiménez, Nicanor ^a   De La Villa, Felipe Miguel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE BASURTO   (Spain)

^b Hospital de Santa Marina   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Internal medicine; Logistic models; ROC curves

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSMER LEMESHOW TEST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4844226048     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13065198     Document Type: Article

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