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Nursing-home-acquired pneumonia in Germany: an 8-year prospective multicentre study

Santiago Ewig, Benjamin Klapdor, Mathias W. Pletz, Gernot Rohde, Hartwig Schütte, Tom Schaberg, Torsten Bauer, Tobias Welte

Thorax · 2011 · 119 citations · 28 references

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Excess mortality in patients with NHAP cannot be attributed to a different microbial pattern but appears to result from increased comorbidities, and consequently, pneumonia is frequently considered and managed as a terminal event.

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