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Undue Prognostic Pessimism May Keep Severely Ill Patients From Intensive Care
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Title Undue Prognostic Pessimism May Keep Severely Ill Patients From Intensive Care
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/565278?src=rss
Description Physicians tend to underestimate the survival probability of patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, and as a result, many patients may be inappropriately denied admission to intensive care units for intubation, investigators report in BMJ Online First for November 2. Reuters Health Information
Category Articles > Allergy and Clinical Immunology
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Date Nov 6, 2007
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