Admission Decisions and Outcomes of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in the Homeless Population: A Review of 172 Patients in an Urban Setting

We compared admission rates, outcomes, and performance of the CURB-65 mortality prediction score of homeless patients and nonhomeless patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We compared homeless (n = 172) and nonhomeless (n = 1897) patients presenting to a Salt Lake City, Utah, emergency d...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of public health (1971) 2013-12, Vol.103 (S2), p.S289-S293
Hauptverfasser:	JONES, Barbara, GUNDLAPALLI, Adi V, JONES, Jason P, BROWN, Samuel M, DEAN, Nathan C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Adult AIDS Alcohol Ambulatory care Asthma Biological and medical sciences Blood pressure Case management Cohort Studies Comorbidity Confidence intervals Costs Drug use Electronic health records Emergency medical care Emergency Service, Hospital - economics Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data Female General aspects Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data HIV Homeless people Homeless Persons - statistics & numerical data Homelessness Hospitalization Hospitals Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Indigent care Length of stay Length of Stay - economics Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data Male Medical records Medical sciences Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mortality Other Infections Other Respiratory Health Other Statistics/Evaluation/Research Patient Admission - economics Patient Admission - statistics & numerical data Pneumology Pneumonia Pneumonia - economics Pneumonia - epidemiology Pneumonia - mortality Population Public health Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Quality Of Care Research and Practice Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases Severity of Illness Index Socioeconomic Factors Streptococcus infections Teaching hospitals Tobacco Tuberculosis Urban Population - statistics & numerical data Utah - epidemiology
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