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| Mendizabal,Maria de Fátima Magalhães Acioly; Bezerra,Phelipe Cunha; Guedes,Diego Lins; Cabral,Diogo Buarque Cordeiro; Miranda-Filho,Demócrito de Barros. |
| This was a case-control study to identify prognostic indicators of bacterial meningitis in a reference hospital in Pernambuco/Brazil. The data were collected from charts of 294 patients with bacterial meningitis between January 2000 and December 2004. Variables were grouped in biological, clinical, laboratory and etiologic agent/treatment. Variables selected in each step were grouped and adjusted for age. Two models were created: one containing clinical variables (clinical model) and other containing laboratory variables (laboratory model). In the clinical model the variables associated with death due to bacterial meningitis were dyspnea (p = 0.006), evidence of shock (p = 0.051), evidence of altered mental state (p = 0.000), absence of headache (p =... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Bacterial meningitis; Prognostic indicators; Case-control study. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702013000500005 |
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