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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
- Source :
- Medical Decision Making. March-April, 2005, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p210, 12 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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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) [...]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0272989X
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Medical Decision Making
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.140911754