Predictors of pneumonia in lower respiratory tract infections: 3C prospective cough complication cohort study

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Moore, Michael ^a   Stuart, Beth ^a   Little, Paul ^a   Smith, Sue ^b   Thompson, Matthew J ^c   Knox, Kyle ^b   van den Bruel, Anne ^b   Lown, Mark ^a   Mant, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COUGHING; CRACKLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PULSE RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; COMPLICATION; OXIMETRY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSCULTATION; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 85050231794     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00434-2017     Document Type: Article

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