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Use of serum C reactive protein and procalcitonin concentrations in addition to symptoms and signs to predict pneumonia in patients presenting to primary care with acute cough: diagnostic study
BMJ 2013; 346 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f2450 (Published 30 April 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f2450
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- Data Supplement - Appendix 1: Standard operating procedure for assessment and feedback of chest radiographs
- Data Supplement - Appendix 2: Characteristics of included patients with radiography available
- Data Supplement - Appendix 3: Calibration plots of validation models, new developed “symptoms and signs” model and “symptoms and signs model + CRP”
- Data Supplement - Appendix 4: Reclassification tables comparing diagnostic risk categories of pneumonia by diagnostic models with and without CRP
- Data Supplement - Appendix 5: Nomogram relating diagnostic items of final model to probability of pneumonia
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