Sequential organ failure assessment score is an excellent operationalization of disease severity of adult patients with hospitalized community acquired pneumonia – results from the prospective observational PROGRESS study

Sequential organ failure assessment score is an excellent operationalization of disease severity of adult patients with hospitalized community acquired pneumonia – results from the prospective observational PROGRESS study

Abstract Background CAP (Community acquired pneumonia) is frequent, with a high mortality rate and a high burden on health care systems. Development of predictive biomarkers, new therapeutic concepts, and epidemiologic research require a valid, reproducible, and quantitative measure describing CAP s...

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Main Authors: Peter Ahnert, Petra Creutz, Katrin Horn, Fabian Schwarzenberger, Michael Kiehntopf, Hamid Hossain, Michael Bauer, Frank Martin Brunkhorst, Konrad Reinhart, Uwe Völker, Trinad Chakraborty, Martin Witzenrath, Markus Löffler, Norbert Suttorp, Markus Scholz, The PROGRESS Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:Critical Care
Subjects:
Clinical epidemiology
Biomarker
Severity score
Prospective clinical study
Infectious disease
Lung disease
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-019-2316-x

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