Elixhauser comorbidity method in predicting death of Spanish inpatients with asplenia and pneumococcal pneumonia
Enrique Gea-Izquierdo,
Rossana Ruiz-Urbaez,
Valentín Hernández-Barrera
et al.
Abstract:Background
Pneumococcal pneumonia (PP) is a serious infection caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. The aim of this study was to analyze the comorbidity factors that influenced the mortality in patients with asplenia according to PP.
Methods
Discharge reports from the Spanish Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS) was used to retrospectively analyze patients with asplenia and PP, from 1997 to 202… Show more
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