Pneumonia is an infection in one or both of the lungs. Many germs, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, can cause pneumonia. You can also get pneumonia by inhaling a liquid or chemical. People most at risk are older than 65 or younger than 2 years of age, or already have health pro...
(sputum that has moderate or manyneutrophilsseen on gram stain) and possible when a pneumonia pathogen other thanLegionellais isolated from purulent sputum in theabsenceof a compatiblegram stain. We have now moved into the era ofmolecular diagnosticswithmultiplex polymerase chain reaction(PCR) as ...
This retrospective cohort study investigated the risk and mortality rate due to aspiration pneumonia in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) using a nationwide database. We identified 10,159 newly diagnosed PD patients between 2004 and 2006, and four
These low to moderate risk classes (I, II, III) could be a target for reduced LOS, quality assurance, and cost-effectiveness program. These differences in LOS could be attributed to other unmeasured patient, physician, or hospital related factor and its process of care....
The risk of acute myocarditis was also significantly higher in COVID-19 patients who had no cardiovascular risk factors, less comorbidities, less organ dysfunction, and mild to moderate illness. Higher HR of acute myocarditis was observed in male compared to female patients. For thrombotic disease,...
Within the entire source cohort, we identified presumptive pneumonia cases from ICD-9 codes and did Cox proportional hazards regression modelling to estimate the association between current statin use and risk of pneumonia. We did crude analyses without any restriction or adjus...
The risk of acute myocarditis was also significantly higher in COVID-19 patients who had no cardiovascular risk factors, less comorbidities, less organ dysfunction, and mild to moderate illness. Higher HR of acute myocarditis was observed in male compared to female patients. For thrombotic disease,...
We used two criteria to select the covariates: 1) variables that were the known as potential risk factors of childhood pneumonia based on current knowledge; 2) variables with a change of 10% of the main effect after included in the model (Lin et al., 2018). By the first criteria, ...
SAP was a substantial medical complication in stroke patients. Stroke patients, who were elderly, had swallowing disturbance, epileptic seizures, and moderate to severe stroke were at risk of developing SAP. Recommendation Early identification and prompt intervention measures for the identified risk factor...
The calculation of Hospital Frailty Risk Score was based on one or more of 109 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes (eTable 3) recalled from all diagnosis codes of any hospitalization within the last two years. According to calculated Hospital Frailty Risk Score, patients were classified into three ...