Severe community acquired pneumonia: What should we predict?

Critical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Renaud, Bertrand ^a   Santin, Aline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FORECASTING; HOSPITALIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77949902804     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8111     Document Type: Letter

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