Almost half of all elderly patients admitted for CAP die in the subsequent year, with most deaths occurring after hospital discharge. The mortality is considerably higher than that of either the general population or a control population hospitalized for reasons other than CAP.
We confirm that many of the important predictors of mortality in severe sepsis are nonproportional and find that Gray's model seems best suited for modeling survival in this condition.
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