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Community-acquired pneumonia
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Evaluación de la gravedad en la neumonía del adulto adquirida en la comunidad
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TL;DR: Clinical judgement and the physician´s experience mustpredominate over predictive models, which are not infallible, in the ambulatory setting.
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Controversial issues in critical care for the elderly: a perspective from Canada
TL;DR: Of paramount importance in the consideration of critical care for the elderly is a determination and an understanding of the many needs that elderly people have, and whether the goals of care include critical care and the associated technology.
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A Real-Time PCR-Based Diagnostic Test for Organisms in Respiratory Tract Infection
TL;DR: A real-time PCR-based test capable of differentiating causative pathogens in respiratory specimens is described, and its principle and the utility of this approach are illustrated.
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Short- and long-term outcomes after incident pneumonia in adults with chronic kidney disease: a time-dependent analysis from the Stockholm CREAtinine Measurement project.
Guobin Su,Guobin Su,Marco Trevisan,Junichi Ishigami,Kunihiro Matsushita,Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg,Juan Jesus Carrero +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used multivariable-adjusted Cox regression with pneumonia as a time-varying exposure to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) [95% confidence intervals (CIs)] for the events of death, major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs), acute kidney injury (AKI), CKD progression or hospitalization for urinary tract infections (UTI)/sepsis.
Human Bocavirus in Hospitalized Iranian Adults with Respiratory Tract Infections during January-June 2014
Helya Sadat Mortazavi,Seyed Hamidreza Monavari,H. Molaee,Hossein Keyvani,Angila Ataei Pirkooh +4 more
TL;DR: HBoV is circulating in Tehran and is associated with both upper and lower respiratory tract disease in adults and the distribution of HBoV was influenced by temperature, relative humidity and precipitation.
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Mortality, morbidity, and psychosocial outcomes of persons spinal cord injured more than 20 years ago.
Gale G. Whiteneck,Susan Charlifue,Hans L. Frankel,M H Fraser,B P Gardner,Kenneth A. Gerhart,K R Krishnan,Robert R. Menter,I Nuseibeh,D J Short,John Russell Silver +10 more
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Causes of death during the first 12 years after spinal cord injury
TL;DR: Though some cause-specific mortality rates for spinal cord injured persons have declined dramatically, many remain substantially above normal and improved methods for preventing and managing these fatal complications must be developed.
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Risk factors for Clostridium difficile carriage and C. difficile-associated diarrhea in a cohort of hospitalized patients
TL;DR: C. difficile was a common Nosocomial infection on this ward, resulting in asymptomatic carriage more often than diarrhea and accounting for one-fifth of all cases of nosocomial diarrhea.
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Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Carriage and C. difficile-Associated Diarrhea in a Cohort of Hospitalized Patients
TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective cohort study of 399 consecutive patients in a single ward over an 11-month period was conducted to identify risk factors for nosocomial C. difficile colonization and diarrhea.
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Successful control of Clostridium difficile infection in an elderly care unit through use of a restrictive antibiotic policy.
Cliodna A. M. McNulty,Margaret Logan,Ian P. Donald,Debbie Ennis,Denise Taylor,R. N. Baldwin,Mira Bannerjee,Keith A. V. Cartwright +7 more
TL;DR: The use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics for hospital treatment of community-acquired infections in the elderly should be encouraged.