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Article: Research from J.D. Chalmers and co-authors provides new data about community-acquired.(Report)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- August 27, 2009
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According to recent research from Scotland, "The aim of this study was to identify key factors on admission predicting the development of complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema in patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia. A prospective observational study of patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia in NHS Lothian, UK, was conducted."
"Multivariate regression analyses were used to evaluate factors that could predict the development of complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema, including admission demographics, clinical features, laboratory tests and pneumonia-specific (Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), CURB65 (New onset confusion, ...
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