Clinical and Economic Burden of Community-Acquired Pneumonia among Adults in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tichopad, Ales ^a   Roberts, Craig ^b   Gembula, Igor ^a   Hajek, Petr ^b   Skoczynska, Anna ^c   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^c   Jahnz Rozyk, Karina ^d   Prymula, Roman ^e   Solovič, Ivan ^f   Kolek, Vitězslav ^g  

^a KlinLab spol s ro   (Czech Republic)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^f National Institute for Tuberculosis Lung Diseases and Thoracic Surgery   (Slovakia)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OLOMOUC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; POLAND; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLOVAKIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COST OF ILLNESS; CZECH REPUBLIC; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POLAND; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84881163059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071375     Document Type: Article

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