CURB-65 as an initial prognostic score in Internal Medicine patients

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 416-419

  Armiñanzas, Carlos ^a   Velasco, Laura ^b   Calvo, Nuria ^b   Portilla, Raquel ^b   Riancho, José A ^a   Valero, Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SIERRALLANA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CURB 65; Internal Medicine; Mortality; Prognosis; Score

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; PROTHROMBIN; UREA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CURB 65 SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY RATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UREA;

EID: 84879099386     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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