Meeting
Abstract Number: 103
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Respiratory rate (RR) is an independent predictor of in-patient mortality, intensive care unit admission and cardiac arrest across a variety of conditions. It is also an integral component of many risk prediction calculators (such as the pneumonia severity index). Thus, accurate assessment of RR is necessary to recognize disease severity and prognosis among hospitalized […]