Survival in patients with nosocomial pneumonia

Rello, Jordi; Rué, Montserrat; Jubert, Paola; Muses, Graciela; Sonora, Rosario; Vallés, Jordi; S. Niederman, Michael

doi:10.1097/00003246-199711000-00026

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Survival in patients with nosocomial pneumonia

Published in Critical Care Medicine • Nov 1, 1997

Authors:

Jordi Rello

Montserrat Rué

Paola Jubert

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 intensiv...

Subject

Medicine

Pneumonia

Intensive care unit

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