Chest
Volume 154, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 550-556
Original Research: Disorders of the PleuraPredictive Variables for Failure in Administration of Intrapleural Tissue Plasminogen Activator/Deoxyribonuclease in Patients With Complicated Parapneumonic Effusions/Empyema
Key Words
combined intrapleural therapy
complicated pleural effusion
predictive model
Abbreviations
AUC
area under the curve
CPE
complicated pleural effusion
DNase
deoxyribonuclease
H-L
Hosmer-Lemeshow
tPA
tissue plasminogen activator
XGBoost
extreme gradient boosting
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FUNDING/SUPPORT: The authors have reported to CHEST that no funding was received for this study.
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