Defining community acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study

By W. Lim, M. Eerden, R. Laing, W. Boersma, N. Karalus, G. Town, S. Lewis, J. Macfarlane. 2003

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Epidemiology

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Interpretable classifiers using rules and Bayesian analysis: Building a better stroke prediction model (2015, background): “, 1985], the CURB-65 score for predicting mortality in community-acquired pneumonia [Lim et al., 2003], and the CHADS2 score [Gage et al.”
Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults (2007, methodology): “Objective criteria to identify patients for ICU admission include the initial ATS definition of severe CAP [5] and its subsequent modification [6, 82] , the CURB criteria [39, 45] , and PSI severity class V (or IV and V) [42] .”
An Interpretable Stroke Prediction Model using Rules and Bayesian Analysis (2013, methodology): “Generate a list of rules r = 1, . . . , R using a rule-mining algorithm.”
Guidelines for the management of adult lower respiratory tract infections - Full version (2011, neutral): “[247] Defining community-acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study PCS 3A+”
Prediction of In-hospital Mortality in Emergency Department Patients With Sepsis: A Local Big Data-Driven, Machine Learning Approach. (2016, background): “…as the Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis score (MEDS); 20 the Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS); 21 and the Confusion, Urea nitrogen, Respiratory Rate, Blood pressure, 65 years of age and older (CURB-65) 22,23 score are well described in the literature and offer a means of comparison.”
BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009 (2009, methodology): “The CURB65 score was developed based on a study of over 1000 prospectively studied patients with CAP from three countries: the UK, New Zealand and the Netherlands.255 [Ib] The 6-point CURB65 score, one point for each of Confusion, Urea .”
Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C Mortality Score (2020, neutral): “21 22 We performed sensitivity analyses by using complete case data.”
Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America (2019, methodology): “pneumonia, using patient demographic and clinical variables from the time of diagnosis to predict 30-day mortality (39, 40).”
Performances of prognostic scoring systems in patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia. (2013, methodology): “strata based on the 5 prognostic factors of CURB-65 [4].”
Building Interpretable Classifiers with Rules using Bayesian Analysis (2012, methodology): “…the Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Score [1], Apache II score for infant mortality in the ICU [20], the CURB-65 score for predicting mortality in community-acquired pneumonia [23], and the CHADS 2 score [16] are examples of interpretable scoring systems that are very widely used.”
The Importance of Respiratory Rate Monitoring: From Healthcare to Sport and Exercise (2020, methodology): “Given the fact that f R is altered substantially by pneumonia, f R is among the variables used to define criteria for the diagnosis of severe pneumonia (≥30 breaths/min) and for the achievement of clinical stability (≤24 breaths/min) [94,95].”