Can a Novel Clinical Risk Score Improve Pneumonia Prediction in Acute Stroke Care? A UK Multicenter Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia frequently complicates stroke and has a major impact on outcome. We derived and internally validated a simple clinical risk score for predicting stroke‐associated pneumonia (SAP), and compared the performance with an existing score (A(2)DS(2)). METHODS AND RESULTS: We extracted...

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Published in:J Am Heart Assoc
Main Authors: Smith, Craig J., Bray, Benjamin D., Hoffman, Alex, Meisel, Andreas, Heuschmann, Peter U., Wolfe, Charles D. A., Tyrrell, Pippa J., Rudd, Anthony G.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330058/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25587017
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.114.001307
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