RATIONALE: Objective strategies are needed to improve the diagnosis of severe community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department setting. OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a clinical prediction rule for identifying patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia, comparing it with other prognostic rules. METHODS: Data collected from clinical information and physical examination of 1,057 patients visiting the emergency department of a hospital were used to derive a clinical prediction rule, which was then validated in two different populations: 719 patients from the same center and 1,121 patients from four other hospitals. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: In the multivariate analyses, eight independent predictive factors were correlated with severe community-acquired pneumonia: arterial pH < 7.30, systolic blood pressure < 90 mm Hg, respiratory rate > 30 breaths/min, altered mental status, blood urea nitrogen > 30 mg/dl, oxygen arterial pressure < 54 mm Hg or ratio of arterial oxygen tension to fraction of inspired oxygen < 250 mm Hg, age > or = 80 yr, and multilobar/bilateral lung affectation. From the beta parameter obtained in the multivariate model, a score was assigned to each predictive variable. The model shows an area under the curve of 0.92. This rule proved better at identifying patients evolving toward severe community-acquired pneumonia than either the modified American Thoracic Society rule, the British Thoracic Society's CURB-65, or the Pneumonia Severity Index. CONCLUSIONS: A simple score using clinical data available at the time of the emergency department visit provides a practical diagnostic decision aid, and predicts the development of severe community-acquired pneumonia.
RATIONALE: Objective strategies are needed to improve the diagnosis of severe community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department setting. OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a clinical prediction rule for identifying patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia, comparing it with other prognostic rules. METHODS: Data collected from clinical information and physical examination of 1,057 patients visiting the emergency department of a hospital were used to derive a clinical prediction rule, which was then validated in two different populations: 719 patients from the same center and 1,121 patients from four other hospitals. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: In the multivariate analyses, eight independent predictive factors were correlated with severe community-acquired pneumonia: arterial pH < 7.30, systolic blood pressure < 90 mm Hg, respiratory rate > 30 breaths/min, altered mental status, blood ureanitrogen > 30 mg/dl, oxygen arterial pressure < 54 mm Hg or ratio of arterial oxygen tension to fraction of inspired oxygen < 250 mm Hg, age > or = 80 yr, and multilobar/bilateral lung affectation. From the beta parameter obtained in the multivariate model, a score was assigned to each predictive variable. The model shows an area under the curve of 0.92. This rule proved better at identifying patients evolving toward severe community-acquired pneumonia than either the modified American Thoracic Society rule, the British Thoracic Society's CURB-65, or the Pneumonia Severity Index. CONCLUSIONS: A simple score using clinical data available at the time of the emergency department visit provides a practical diagnostic decision aid, and predicts the development of severe community-acquired pneumonia.
Authors: Michael J Lanspa; Paula Peyrani; Timothy Wiemken; Emily L Wilson; Julio A Ramirez; Nathan C Dean Journal: J Hosp Med Date: 2014-11-01 Impact factor: 2.960
Authors: Ognjen Gajic; Ousama Dabbagh; Pauline K Park; Adebola Adesanya; Steven Y Chang; Peter Hou; Harry Anderson; J Jason Hoth; Mark E Mikkelsen; Nina T Gentile; Michelle N Gong; Daniel Talmor; Ednan Bajwa; Timothy R Watkins; Emir Festic; Murat Yilmaz; Remzi Iscimen; David A Kaufman; Annette M Esper; Ruxana Sadikot; Ivor Douglas; Jonathan Sevransky; Michael Malinchoc Journal: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Date: 2010-08-27 Impact factor: 21.405