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Marked Improvement in 30-Day Mortality among Elderly Inpatients and Outpatients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Community-acquired pneumonia is the most common infectious cause of death in the United States. Over the last two decades, patient characteristics and clinical care have changed. To understand the impact of these changes, we quantified incidence and mortality trends among elderly adults....

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Main Authors: Ruhnke, Gregory W., Coca-Perraillon, Marcelo, Kitch, Barrett T., Cutler, David M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3064506/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21295197
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.08.019
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