Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jan 1995
A five-year study of severe community-acquired pneumonia with emphasis on prognosis in patients admitted to an intensive care unit.
To characterize the epidemiology and to determine the prognosis factors in severe community-acquired pneumonia among patients admitted to an intensive care unit. ⋯ The effectiveness of the initial therapy appears to be the most significant prognosis factor and, as the one and only related to the initial medical intervention, suggests a need for permanent optimization of our antimicrobial strategies.