Risk stratification of early admission to the intensive care unit of patients with no major criteria of severe community-acquired pneumonia: development of an international prediction rule
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Critical Care
- Vol. 13 (2), R54
- https://doi.org/10.1186/cc7781
Abstract
To identify risk factors for early (< three days) intensive care unit (ICU) admission of patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and not requiring immediate ICU admission, and to stratify the risk of ICU admission on days 1 to 3.Keywords
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