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Usefulness of CURB-65 and Pneumonia Severity Index for Influenza A H1N1v pneumonia [PDF]

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2015
Background. Different prognostic scales have been documented to assess the severity and indications for hospitalization and ICU admissions of community acquired pneumonia. During the past two years Influenza A H1N1v infections have been commonly attended to in emergency departments.
Angel Estella
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EMR Combined with CRB-65 Superior to CURB-65 in Predicting Mortality in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia [Response to Letter] [PDF]

Infection and Drug Resistance
Yi Sun,1,2 Hong Wang,3 Minghao Gu,4 Xingyu Zhang,5 Xiudi Han,1 Xuedong Liu1 1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Qingdao Municipal Hospital Group, Qingdao, Shandong Province, 266000, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Clinical
Sun Y, Wang H, Gu M, Zhang X, Han X, Liu X   +5 more
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Low CURB-65 is of limited value in deciding discharge of patients with community-acquired pneumonia [PDF]

Respiratory Medicine, 2011
The relationship between clinical judgment and indications of the CURB-65 score in deciding the site-of-care for patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to evaluate reasons for hospitalization of CAP patients with CURB-65 score of 0 and 1.An observational, retrospective study of ...
S. Aliberti, J. Ramirez, R. Cosentini, A. M. Brambilla, A. M. Zanaboni, V. Rossetti, P. Tarsia, P. Peyrani, F. Piffer, F. Blasi   +9 more
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Enhancing pneumonia prognosis in the emergency department: a novel machine learning approach using complete blood count and differential leukocyte count combined with CURB-65 score [PDF]

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Background Pneumonia poses a major global health challenge, necessitating accurate severity assessment tools. However, conventional scoring systems such as CURB-65 have inherent limitations.
Yin-Ting Lin, Ko-Ming Lin, Kai-Hsiang Wu, Frank Lien   +3 more
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Usefulness of CURB-65, pneumonia severity index and MULBSTA in predicting COVID-19 mortality [PDF]

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2022
The aim of our study is to evaluate the accuracy of CURB-65 and Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), the most widely used scores for community acquired pneumonia, and MuLBSTA, a viral pneumonia score, in predicting 28-day mortality in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia.We retrospectively collected clinical data of consecutive patients with ...
Preti, Carlo, Biza, Roberta, Novelli, Luca, Ghirardi, Arianna, Conti, Caterina, Galimberti, Chiara, Della Bella, Lorenzo, Memaj, Irdi, Di Marco, Fabiano, Cosentini, Roberto   +9 more
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Comparison of clinical characteristics of elderly patients with COVID-19 with young and middle-aged patients in a COVID-19 hospital in Herat province of Afghanistan [PDF]

Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2023
Introduction: Coronaviruses are a large family of RNA viruses affecting mammals and birds. The first case of coronavirus in Afghanistan was recorded on February 24, 2020 in a 35-year-old male from Herat who had recently traveled to Iran.
Hosain aqa Hosaini
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A New Score for Predicting Mortality in Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Associating CURB-65 with Bleeding: CURB-65+B

Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni, 2023
The clinical spectrum of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) disease ranges from mild to fatal. Adult patients infected with the CCHF virus have a case fatality rate ranging from 3% to 30%. In order to measure the severity and mortality of CCHF disease, scoring systems comprised of laboratory data and clinical observations have been developed.
Rukiye İnan Sarıkaya, Ömer Karaşahin
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Can We Improve Confusion, Uremia, Respiratory Rate, Blood Pressure, Age >65 with Lactate and Procalcitonin to Predict Mortality in Pneumonia?

Dubai Medical Journal, 2023
Introduction: Pneumonia is a common diagnosis in the emergency department (ED). Some scoring systems such as Confusion, Uremia, Respiratory Rate, Blood Pressure, Age>65 (CURB-65) are used to determine the severity of this disease.
Ahmet Burak Urfalioglu, Satuk Bugra Yapici, Durdu Mehmet Uzucek, Dervis Yildiz, Kemal Sener, Adem Kaya, Akkan Avci, Sadiye Yolcu   +7 more
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Comparative study of CURB-65 and expanded CURB-65 score in community acquired pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital of Assam

International Journal of Advances in Medicine, 2022
Background: Community acquired pneumonia is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries like India. The presentation of CAP may range from mild pneumonia characterized only by fever and productive cough to severe pneumonia leading to respiratory distress and sepsis syndrome requiring management in ICU.
Parag Kumar Das, Jayanta Dhekial Phukan, Suresh Sharma, Debasish Goswami, Atovili K. Yepthomi   +4 more
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Prognostic Value of Procalcitonin in Pneumonia among Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit. [PDF]

Kosin Medical Journal, 2019
Objectives Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in the intensive care unit (ICU). Many biomarkers for predicted prognosis have been suggested; among these, procalcitonin (PCT) is known to increase in cases of bacterial infection.
Deok Hee Kim, Hae Won Jung, Hyung Koo Kang   +2 more
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