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Provedor de dados: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Application of the ATLAS score for evaluating the severity of Clostridium difﬁcile infection in teaching hospitals in Mexico	
Autores: 	Hernández-García,Raúl; Garza-González,Elvira; Miller,Mark; Arteaga-Muller,Giovanna; Galván-de los Santos,Alejandra María; Camacho-Ortiz,Adrián.	
Data: 	2015-08-01	
Ano: 	2015	
Palavras-chave: 	Clostridium difﬁcile; Prediction rule; Mortality.	
Resumo: 	Background: For clinicians, a practical bedside tool for severity assessment and prognosis of patients with Clostridium difﬁcileinfection is a highly desirable unmet medical need.Setting: Two general teaching hospitals in northeast Mexico.Population: Adult patients with C. difﬁcileinfection.Methods: Prospective observational study.Results: Patients included had a median of 48 years of age, 54% of male gender and an average of 24.3 days length of hospital stay. Third generation cephalosporins were the antibiotics most commonly used prior to C. difﬁcileinfection diagnosis. Patients diagnosed with C. difﬁcileinfection had a median ATLAS score of 4 and 56.7% of the subjects had a score between 4 and 7 points. Patients with a score of 8 through 10 points had 100% mortality.Conclusion: The ATLAS score is a potentially useful tool for the routine evaluation of patients at the time of C. difﬁcileinfection diagnosis. At 30 days post-diagnosis, patients with a score of ≤3 points had 100% survival while all of those with scores ≥8 died. Patients with scores between 4 and 7 points had a greater probability of colectomy with an overall cure rate of 70.1%.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000400399	
Editor: 	Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases	
Relação: 	10.1016/j.bjid.2015.05.005	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.19 n.4 2015	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess