Clinical and economic burden of community-acquired pneumonia among adults in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

We estimate and describe the incidence rates, mortality, and cost of CAP (community-acquired pneumonia), in both inpatient and outpatient settings, in the Czech Republic (CZ), Slovakia (SK), Poland (PL), and Hungary (HU). A retrospective analysis was conducted on administrative data from the health...

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Main Authors: Ales Tichopad, Craig Roberts, Igor Gembula, Petr Hajek, Anna Skoczynska, Waleria Hryniewicz, Karina Jahnz-Rozyk, Roman Prymula, Ivan Solovič, Vitězslav Kolek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3735497?pdf=render