Severity scores for CAP. 'Much workload for the next bias'

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 853-855

  Ewig, Santiago ^a   Torres, Antoni ^b  

^a Augusta Kranken Anstalt   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; OXIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77957194206     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.143297     Document Type: Editorial

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