Open AccessDiagnosis of infectious pleural effusion using predictive models based on pleural fluid biomarkers
Author(s) -
Lucía Ferreiro,
Óscar Lado-Baleato,
Juan Suárez-Antelo,
María E. Toubes,
María José,
Adriana Lama,
Nuria Rodríguez-Núñez,
José Manuel Álvarez-Dobaño,
Francisco Javier GonzálezBarcala,
Jorge Ricoy,
Francisco Gudé,
Luís Valdés
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/atm.atm_77_19
Subject(s) - medicine , pleural effusion , logistic regression , area under the curve , pleural fluid , prospective cohort study , gastroenterology , pathology
Diagnosis of pleural infection (PI) may be challenging. The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a clinical prediction model for the diagnosis of PI based on pleural fluid (PF) biomarkers.