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| Miranda-Filho,D.B.; Ximenes,R.A.A.; Barone,A.A.; Vaz,V.L.; Vieira,A.G.; Albuquerque,V.M.G.. |
| The authors propose a clinical classification to monitor the evolution of tetanus patients, ranging from grade I to IV according to severity. It was applied on admission and repeated on alternate days up to the 10th day to patients aged > or = 12 years admitted to the State University Hospital, Recife, Brazil. Patients were also classified upon admission according to three prognostic indicators to determine if the proposed classification is in agreement with the traditionally used indicators. Upon admission, the distribution of the 64 patients among the different levels of the proposed classification was similar for the groups of better and worse prognosis according to the three indicators (P > 0.05), most of the patients belonging to grades I and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tetanus; Progression; Classification; Clinical. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2006001000009 |
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