Nutritional risk screening score as an independent predictor of nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: a cohort study of 67,280 patients

Abstract Background Currently, the association of nutritional risk screening score with the development of nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) is unknown. This study investigated whether nutritional risk screening score is an independent predictor of NV-HAP. Methods This retrospective...

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Main Authors: Zhihui Chen, Hongmei Wu, Jiehong Jiang, Kun Xu, Shengchun Gao, Le Chen, Haihong Wang, Xiuyang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06014-w