Single Admission C-reactive protein Levels as a Sole Predictor of Patient Flow and Clinical Course in a General Internal Medicine Department.

C-reactive protein (CRP) blood level is associated with clinical outcomes of several diseases. However, the independent predictive role of CRP in the heterogeneous population of patients admitted to internal medicine wards is not known.To determine whether single CRP levels at admission independently predicts clinical outcome and flow of patients in general medicine wards.This study comprised 275 patients (50.5% female) with a mean age of 68.25...