Community-acquired pneumonia: Economics of inpatient medical care vis-à-vis clinical severity;Pneumonia adquirida na comunidade: Economia de cuidados médicos em regime de internamento, em relação à gravidade clínica

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-57

  Cupurdija, Vojislav ^a   Lazic, Zorica ^a   Petrovic, Marina ^a   Mojsilovic, Slavica ^a   Cekerevac, Ivan ^a   Rancic, Nemanja ^b   Jakovljevic, Mihajlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b Serbia   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Costs and cost analysis; Health care costs; Hospitalization; Pneumonia; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SERBIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SERBIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924530414     PISSN: 18063713     EISSN: 18063756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1806-37132015000100007     Document Type: Article

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