Noninterventional statistical comparison of BTS and CHEST guidelines for size and severity in primary pneumothorax.
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Abstract
Hilar rather than apical interpleural distance more accurately predicts need for intercostal chest drain insertion http://ow.ly/JvKFY
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Keywords
Adolescent, Adult, Area Under Curve, Chest Tubes, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pilot Projects, Pneumothorax, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Pulmonary Medicine, ROC Curve, Radiography, Severity of Illness Index, Societies, Medical, United Kingdom, United States, Young Adult
Journal Title
Eur Respir J
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Journal ISSN
0903-1936
1399-3003
1399-3003
Volume Title
45
Publisher
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
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Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (G1002610)
Medical Research Council (G0601840)
Wellcome Trust (100140/Z/12/Z)
Medical Research Council (G0601840)
Wellcome Trust (100140/Z/12/Z)
The study was funded by the East Anglian Thoracic Society. M.Z. Nikolić
is a Wellcome Trust PhD
Programme for Clinicians Fellow at the University of Cambridge. S.J. Marciniak is a Medical Research Council Senior
Clinical Fellow. J. Wason is funded by the Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre. Funding information for this article
has been deposited with FundRef.