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Respiratory infection
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Community-acquired pneumonia as medical emergency: predictors of early deterioration

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  • Martin Kolditz Division of Pulmonology, Medical Department I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Santiago Ewig Department of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, EVK Herne and Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Benjamin Klapdor Department of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, EVK Herne and Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hartwig Schütte Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany Department of Pulmonology, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Johannes Winning Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jan Rupp CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany Division of Molecular and Clinical Infectious Diseases, Med. Clinic III, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Norbert Suttorp Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tobias Welte CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gernot Rohde CAPNETZ Stiftung, Hannover, Germany Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Martin Kolditz, Division of Pulmonology, Medical Department I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstr. 74, Dresden 01307, Germany; martin.kolditz{at}uniklinikum-dresden.de
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Citation

Kolditz M, Ewig S, Klapdor B on behalf of the CAPNETZ study group, et al
Community-acquired pneumonia as medical emergency: predictors of early deterioration
Thorax 2015;70:551-558.

Publication history

  • Received December 23, 2014
  • Revised February 3, 2015
  • Accepted February 26, 2015
  • First published March 17, 2015.
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September 01, 2022

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