Severity assessment tools to guide ICU admission in community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis

JD Chalmers, P Mandal, A Singanayagam… - Intensive care …, 2011 - Springer
Background The aim of this meta-analysis was to determine if severity assessment tools can
be used to guide decisions regarding intensive care unit (ICU) admission of patients with …

Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C …

SR Knight, A Ho, R Pius, I Buchan, G Carson… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To develop and validate a pragmatic risk score to predict mortality in patients
admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). Design Prospective …

Management-based risk prediction in community-acquired pneumonia by scores and biomarkers

M Kolditz, S Ewig, G Höffken - European Respiratory Journal, 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents a major life-threatening infection, but
disease course and outcome is highly variable. Major drivers of prognosis are respiratory …

Early identification of patients at risk of acute lung injury: evaluation of lung injury prediction score in a multicenter cohort study

O Gajic, O Dabbagh, PK Park, A Adesanya… - American journal of …, 2011 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Accurate, early identification of patients at risk for developing acute lung injury
(ALI) provides the opportunity to test and implement secondary prevention strategies …

Dexamethasone and length of hospital stay in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

SCA Meijvis, H Hardeman, HHF Remmelts… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Whether addition of corticosteroids to antibiotic treatment benefits patients with
community-acquired pneumonia who are not in intensive care units is unclear. We aimed to …

Inflammation biomarkers in blood as mortality predictors in community-acquired pneumonia admitted patients: importance of comparison with neutrophil count …

J Curbelo, S Luquero Bueno, JM Galván-Román… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The increase and persistence of inflammation in community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) patients can lead to higher mortality. Biomarkers capable of measuring …

Behandlung von erwachsenen Patienten mit ambulant erworbener Pneumonie und Prävention–Update 2016

S Ewig, G Höffken, WV Kern, G Rohde, H Flick… - …, 2016 - thieme-connect.com
Die vorliegende Leitlinie umfasst ein neues und aktualisiertes Konzept der Behandlung und
Prävention von erwachsenen Patienten mit ambulant erworbener Pneumonie und löst die …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for diagnosis and management of community-and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults: Joint ICS/NCCP (I) recommendations

D Gupta, R Agarwal, AN Aggarwal, N Singh… - Lung India, 2012 - journals.lww.com
3. Chest radiograph should be repeated if the patient is not improving and also for all those
patients who have persistence or worsening of symptoms/physical signs or those in whom …

IL-6 and TNF-α serum levels are associated with early death in community-acquired pneumonia patients

MR Bacci, RCP Leme, NPC Zing, N Murad… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is amongst the leading causes of death worldwide.
As inflammatory markers, cytokines can predict outcomes, if interpreted together with clinical …

Validation and clinical implications of the IDSA/ATS minor criteria for severe community-acquired pneumonia

J Phua, KC See, YH Chan, LS Widjaja, NW Aung… - Thorax, 2009 - thorax.bmj.com
Background: The 2007 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)/American Thoracic
Society (ATS) guidelines defined severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and …