Clinical Illness and Outcomes in Patients with Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Prospective Study
@article{Mittapally2015ClinicalIA, title={Clinical Illness and Outcomes in Patients with Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Prospective Study}, author={Vijay Kumar Mittapally and Divya Lanka}, journal={Research and reviews: journal of medical and health sciences}, year={2015}, volume={4} }
Purpose of review
Pneumonia is considered as the main lung infectious diseases cause for death and also the seventh leading cause for death overall within the United States. There is important interest in understanding the connection between community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and mortality.
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Pneumonia is that the seventh leading explanation for death in US. It’s calculable that there are four million cases of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)/yr within the US that ends in… CONTINUE READING
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