Withholding or starting antibiotic treatment in patients with dementia and pneumonia: prediction of mortality with physicians' judgment of illness severity and with specific prognostic models

Authors :: van der Steen, Jenny T.
Ooms, Marcel E.
van der Wal, Gerrit
Ribbe, Miel W.
Source :: Medical Decision Making. March-April, 2005, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p210, 12 p.
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: Background. To help decision makers plan treatment, the authors assessed clinical predictors of mortality from nursing home-acquired pneumonia in patients with dementia. Methods. Pneumonia patients treated without (n = 165) [...]

Subjects :: Bacterial pneumonia -- Care and treatment -- Health aspects
Decision-making -- Methods -- Usage -- Health aspects
Pneumonia -- Care and treatment -- Health aspects
Statistical methods -- Usage -- Health aspects -- Methods
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