Usefulness of the CRB-65 scale for prognosis assessment of patients 65 years or older with community-acquired pneumonia;Utilidad de la escala CRB-65 en la evaluación pronóstica de los pacientes mayores de 65 años con neumonía adquirida en la comunidad

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 97-102

  Crcoles, Ángel Vila ^a   Gondar, Olga Ochoa ^a   Blanco, Teresa Rodríguez ^b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^b Unitat de Recerca   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumoniae; CRB 65; Elder; Mortality; Severity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRB 5 SCALE; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77953232988     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2009.09.049     Document Type: Article

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