[Comparison of pneumonia severity indices between modified A-DROP system and current A-DROP system predicting outcomes for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia].

BACKGROUND: The A-DROP is a predicting pneumonia severity index which is adopted in the Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS) guidelines. For community-acquired pneumonia, we made a modified A-DROP, adding two new index items to the current A-DROP. Then, we retrospectively compared the modified A-DROP with the current A-DROP regarding 30-day mortality. METHODS AND
RESULTS: We analyzed consecutive 227 patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (mean age 79.0 years). The added index items were respiratory rate > or = 30/min and the presence or absence of underlying diseases. There were 16 fatalities (7.0%). In the extremely severe group, the sensitivities of the 30-day death and odds ratios were 19.9% and 9.5 in the current A-DROP, but 75.0% and 14.1 for the modified A-DROP, respectively. In addition, regarding the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) area under the curve for the 30-day death ratio, the current A-DROP and modified A-DROP were 0.807 and 0.840, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS: The modified A-DROP improved the ability to predict outcomes compared with the current A-DROP.