Outcomes and prognostic features of patients with influenza requiring hospitalization and receiving early antiviral therapy: A Prospective Multicenter-Cohort Study.
Conclusions: Among the prognostic factors, malnutrition and pneumonia are amenable to medical intervention. There is an opportunity to improve empiric therapy for patients with HCAP and influenza.
Trial registration: Japan Medical Association Center for Clinical Trials JMA-IIA00123.
PMID: 26203671 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Chest - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Maruyama T, Fujisawa T, Suga S, Nakamura H, Nagao M, Taniguchi K, Tsutsui K, Ihara T, Niederman MS Tags: Chest Source Type: research
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