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Peggy Hasley, MD
Pittsburgh, Pa

Arch Intern Med. 1997;157(11):1267-1268.

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The comments of Jackson, Malik, and Peard regarding our article^' are appreciated. Our original multivariate analyses carefully controlled for patient demographic characteristics (eg, age), physical examination findings (eg, abnormal vital signs), comorbid illnesses (eg, active cancer), high-risk pneumonia etiology (eg, staphylococcal or Gram-negative rod pneumonia), and abnormal laboratory findings (eg, arterial hypoxemia), with a known association with mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.^2,3 In addition to the significant independent association of bilateral pleural effusions with mortality (odds ratio, 2.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4-5.8), the results of multivariate analysis indicated 9 nonradiographic factors with an independent association with mortality: age, confusion, active cancer, neuromuscular disease, renal insufficiency, cerebrovascular disease, a high-risk microbiologic etiology, arterial hypoxemia (PO₂, <60 mm Hg), and a white blood cell count less than 4*109/L, with multivariate odds ratios ranging from 1.05 (95% CI, 1.03-1.07) per 1 year of age to 4.5 (95% CI, 2.0-10.3) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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