Denver and Marshall scores successfully predict susceptibility to multiple independent infections in trauma patients.

Trauma patients are at risk of repeated hospital-acquired infections, however predictive scores aiming to identify susceptibility to such infections are lacking. The objective of this study was to investigate whether commonly employed disease-severity scores can successfully predict susceptibility t...

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Main Authors: Marianna Almpani, Amy Tsurumi, Thomas Peponis, Yashoda V Dhole, Laura F Goodfield, Ronald G Tompkins, Laurence G Rahme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232175