Comparison of Clinical Manifestations and Outcome of Community-Acquired Bloodstream Infections Among the Oldest Old, Elderly, and Adult Patients: Erratum
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Comparison of Clinical Manifestations and Outcome of Community-Acquired Bloodstream Infections Among the Oldest Old, Elderly, and Adult Patients: Erratum In the article BComparison of Clinical Manifestations and Outcome of Community-Acquired Bloodstream Infections Among the Oldest Old, Elderly, and Adult Patients’’ by Lee et al, appearing inMedicine (Baltimore), Volume 86, No. 3, on page 138, the DOI provided for this article was incorrect. The correct DOI is: 10.1097/MD.0b013e31806a754c. REFERENCE Lee CC, Chen SY, Chang IJ, Chen SC, Wu SC. Comparison of clinical manifestations and outcome of community-acquired bloodstream infections among the oldest old, elderly, and adult patients. Medicine (Baltimore). 2007;86:138Y144.
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Comparison of clinical manifestations and outcome of community-acquired bloodstream infections among the oldest old, elderly, and adult patients.
Valid studies comparing the clinical characteristics among adult, elderly, and the oldest old bacteremic patients are lacking. We conducted a prospective, observational study in the emergency department (ED) of a university medical center between June 2001 and June 2002. All patients >18 years of age who registered in the ED with a clinically significant, culture-positive, bloodstream infection...
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