Increasing Hospital Admissions for Pneumonia, England

Pneumonia is an important cause of illness and death in England. To describe trends in pneumonia hospitalizations, we extracted information on all episodes of pneumonia that occurred from April 1997 through March 2005 recorded in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database by searching for Intern...

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Published in:	Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 727 - 733
Main Authors:	Trotter, Caroline L., Stuart, James M., George, Robert, Miller, Elizabeth
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.05.2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:	Admission and discharge Aged Aged, 80 and over Bacterial pneumonia Care and treatment Community-Acquired Infections - diagnosis Community-Acquired Infections - epidemiology Community-Acquired Infections - microbiology Community-Acquired Infections - mortality Diagnosis England England - epidemiology epidemiology Female hospital Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Hospitalization - trends Hospitals Humans Incidence Length of Stay Male patient admission Pneumonia Pneumonia, Bacterial - diagnosis Pneumonia, Bacterial - epidemiology Pneumonia, Bacterial - microbiology Pneumonia, Bacterial - mortality Risk factors trends England United Kingdom
ISSN:	1080-6040, 1080-6059, 1080-6059
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