Journal article : Review
Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for pneumonia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Abstract:
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Pneumonia constitutes a substantial disease burden among adults overall and those who are elderly. We aimed to identify all studies investigating the disease burden among older adults (age, ≥65 years) admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. We estimated the hospital admission rate and in-hospital case-fatality ratio (CFR) of pneumonia in older adults, stratified by age and economic status (industrialized vs developing), with data from a systematic review of studies published from 1996 throug...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 222
- Issue:
- S1
- Pages:
- S570-S576
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1537-6613
- ISSN:
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0022-1899
- Pmid:
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30849172
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
- Review
- Pubs id:
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1164031
- Local pid:
- pubs:1164031
- Deposit date:
- 2021-03-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Shi et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
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