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SUBMITTER: Bastos HN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5026366 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bastos Helder Novais HN Osório Nuno S NS Castro António Gil AG Ramos Angélica A Carvalho Teresa T Meira Leonor L Araújo David D Almeida Leonor L Boaventura Rita R Fragata Patrícia P Chaves Catarina C Costa Patrício P Portela Miguel M Ferreira Ivo I Magalhães Sara Pinto SP Rodrigues Fernando F Sarmento-Castro Rui R Duarte Raquel R Guimarães João Tiago JT Saraiva Margarida M
PloS one 20160916 9
Tuberculosis imposes high human and economic tolls, including in Europe. This study was conducted to develop a severity assessment tool for stratifying mortality risk in pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients. A derivation cohort of 681 PTB cases was retrospectively reviewed to generate a model based on multiple logistic regression analysis of prognostic variables with 6-month mortality as the outcome measure. A clinical scoring system was developed and tested against a validation cohort of 103 p ...[more]