Pneumonia severity
Pneumonia severity, comorbidity and 1 year mortality in predominantly older adults with community acquired pneumonia: a cohort study
... that pneumonia severity on admission has also an influence on long-term mortality ...that pneumonia severity scores may be helpful for the prediction of long-term ...the Pneumonia ...
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Validity of pneumonia severity index/pneumonia outcome research trial and Curb-65 severity scoring systems in community acquired pneumonia in Indian setting
... as pneumonia severity index (PSI) and the British thoracic society rule, which has recently been modified to the CURB-65 rule for CAP have been developed to address these ...
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Assessment of Pneumonia Severity Indices as Mortality Predictors
... The severity indices used were the American Thoracic Society (ATS) criteria, the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), the British Thoracic Society criteria (CURB-65), Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure ...
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Confusion, blood urea, respiration and blood pressure 65, pneumonia severity index and shock index and hypoxemia scores in community acquired pneumonia and outcome prediction: a descriptive study from Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Hospital Raipur, India
... The Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) gives us a means of stratifying groups of patients considering the risk of mortality. This scoring system is based on 20 variables including three demographic ...
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Pneumonia severity scores in resource poor settings
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Prognostic factors in hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia: a retrospective study of a prospective observational cohort
... existing pneumonia severity scores, such as PSI, IDSA/ATS severe pneumonia criteria, CURB-65 and A-DROP are useful in predicting the prognosis of pa- tients with CAP, excluding ...
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Prognostic value of severity indicators of nursing-home-acquired pneumonia versus community-acquired pneumonia in elderly patients
... and severity scores (confusion, urea, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and age $65 [CURB-65] scale; age, dehydration, respiratory failure, orientation disturbance, and pressure [A-DROP] scale; and ...
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Non-HIV Pneumocystis pneumonia: do conventional community-acquired pneumonia guidelines under estimate its severity?
... Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) can occur in immunosuppressed patients having malignancy or on immunosuppressive ...classify severity, the A-DROP scale proposed by the Japanese Respiratory Society (JRS), the ...
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Progression of the Radiologic Severity Index is associated with increased mortality and healthcare resource utilisation in acute leukaemia patients with pneumonia
... whether pneumonia risk scores predict cost and healthcare ...acquired pneumonia (CAP), higher baseline CURB-65 and Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) scores did not predict higher costs attributed ...
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Association between hospital case volume and mortality in non elderly pneumonia patients stratified by severity: a retrospective cohort study
... of severity levels. This leads to the in- creased importance of severity adjustment for case mix when examining the overall volume-outcome relation- ship, as well as a potential for modified effect of ...
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Soluble RAGE as a severity marker in community acquired pneumonia associated sepsis
... the severity of CAP, which can lead to insufficiently aggressive interventions inpatients with a high risk of complications ...the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), is a 20-point score that classifies ...
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Risk factors to predict drug resistant pathogens in hemodialysis associated pneumonia
... The pneumonia severity index (PSI) was calculated according to the Pneumonia Patient Outcomes Research Team cohort study for community-acquired pneumonia ...[11]. Severity was di- vided ...
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Relationship between Plasma Levels of Zinc and Clinical Course of Pneumonia
... between the two groups. The severity of pneumonia was determined using the pneumonia severity index (PSI) or PORT Score (29). Statistical analysis was performed using the Statistical Package ...
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Spectrum of microbial infection in an Intensive Care Unit: a single centre tertiary care experience in Southern Indian state of Karnataka
... Based on discussed results it may be concluded that the most frequent infection was monomicrobial with Kliebsiella pneumoniae followed by MDR Acinetobacter Baumanni as common pathogen. Outcome variables like mortality, ...
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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of severe community-acquired pneumonia in children after introduction of the 10-valent pneumococcal vaccine
... WHO pneumonia severity rating with two other strategies for categorizing disease severity: presence or absence of complications and presence or absence of hypoxia, as observed in Table ...hypoxic ...
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Copeptin, a novel prognostic biomarker in ventilator associated pneumonia
... VAP and sepsis impose stress on patients, potentially promot- ing cardiovascular instability and an elevated demand for vaso- pressin and glucocorticoid secretion. Our data showed that copeptin levels increased ...
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YKL-40 levels are associated with disease severity and prognosis of viral pneumonia, but not available in bacterial pneumonia in children
... Data were analyzed using SPSS software (SPSS, IL, USA) and were presented as the mean ± SD. The comparison between two groups was conducted by the Student t-test or Wilcoxon’s rank test for continuous variables and the ...
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Serum and exhaled breath condensate inflammatory cytokines in community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cohort study
... Background: The role and relationship between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines represents one of the least studied aspects of the pathogenesis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The aim of the present ...
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Association of sputum microbiota profiles with severity of community acquired pneumonia in children
... Our study has limitations and any potential causal as- sociations between the presence of the identified taxa and CAP severity must be interpreted with caution. In- duced sputum samples were collected once and we ...
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Factors associated with bronchiectasis in patients with uncontrolled asthma; the NOPES score: a study in 398 patients
... A score called NOPES (after FeNO, pneumonia, expec- toration and severity) was developed, using logistic re- gression (Table 5). Of the 11 variables that were initially selected, only those with a ...
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