Survival in patients with nosocomial pneumonia: impact of the severity of illness and the etiologic agent.

J, Rello; M, Rué; P, Jubert; G, Muses; R, Soñora; J, Vallés; MS, Niederman

doi:10.1097/00003246-199711000-00026

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Survival in patients with nosocomial pneumonia: impact of the severity of illness and the etiologic agent.

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Rello J

Rué M

Jubert P

Abstract

Objective To assess the impact of severity of illness at different times, using the Mortality Probability Models (MPM II), and the impact of etiologic agent on survival in patients with nosocomial pneumonia.Design Retrospective, observational study.Setting Fourteen-bed medical-surgical intensive car...

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