Design and Performance of a New Severity Score for Intermediate Care.

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Published in PLoS One on June 29, 2015

Authors

Félix Alegre1, Manuel Fortún Landecho2, Ana Huerta1, Nerea Fernández-Ros1, Diego Martínez-Urbistondo1, Nicolás García1, Jorge Quiroga3, Juan Felipe Lucena1

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Intermediate Care and Hospitalists Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
2: Division of Intermediate Care and Hospitalists Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
3: Division of Intermediate Care and Hospitalists Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Navarra, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Madrid, Spain.

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