Capturing the trends in hospital standardized mortality ratios for pneumonia: a retrospective observational study in Japan (2010 to 2018)

• Main Authors: Rebeka Amin (Author), Yosuke Hatakeyama (Author), Takefumi Kitazawa (Author), Kunichika Matsumoto (Author), Shigeru Fujita (Author), Kanako Seto (Author), Tomonori Hasegawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Komiyama Printing Co. Ltd, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Pneumonia has a high human toll and a substantial economic burden in developed countries like Japan, where the crude mortality rate was 77.7 per 100,000 people in 2017. As this trend is going to continue with increasing number of the elderly multi-morbid population in Japan; moni...