The Roles of the Charlson Comorbidity Index and Time to First Antibiotic Dose as Predictors of Outcome in Pneumococcal Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Daniel Franzen,Marisa Lim,Daniel J. Bratton,Stefan P. Kuster,Malcolm Kohler

The Roles of the Charlson Comorbidity Index and Time to First Antibiotic Dose as Predictors of Outcome in Pneumococcal Community-Acquired Pneumonia

2016

Daniel Franzen
Marisa Lim
Daniel J. Bratton
Stefan P. Kuster
Malcolm Kohler

Purpose In this retrospective study, we aimed to investigate the role of comorbidities using the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) and time to first antibiotic dose (TFAD) in patients with pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (PCAP).

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Anesthesia
Severity of illness
Comorbidity
Antibiotics
Community-acquired pneumonia
Medicine
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Pneumonia severity index
Intensive care medicine
Retrospective cohort study
Surgery
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