Pneumonia severity index

Known as: pneumonia severity of illness index (PSI) 
 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
β-Lactam monotherapy vs β-lactam-macrolide combination treatment in moderately severe community-acquired pneumonia: a randomized noninferiority trial.
IMPORTANCE The clinical benefit of adding a macrolide to a β-lactam for empirical treatment of moderately severe community… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Long-term morbidity and mortality after hospitalization with community-acquired pneumonia: a population-based cohort study.
Little is known about the long-term sequelae of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Therefore, we describe the long-term… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Prospective comparison of three predictive rules for assessing severity of community-acquired pneumonia in Hong Kong.
BACKGROUND Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading infectious cause of death throughout the world, including Hong Kong… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Pro-adrenomedullin to predict severity and outcome in community-acquired pneumonia [ISRCTN04176397]
INTRODUCTION Pro-adrenomedullin (proADM) is helpful for individual risk assessment and outcome prediction in sepsis. A major… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A prospective comparison of severity scores for identifying patients with severe community acquired pneumonia: reconsidering what is meant by severe pneumonia.
BACKGROUND Several severity scores have been proposed to predict patient outcome and to guide initial management of patients with… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Misdiagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and inappropriate utilization of antibiotics: side effects of the 4-h antibiotic administration rule.
BACKGROUND The 2003 Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) recommend the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Usefulness of procalcitonin levels in community-acquired pneumonia according to the patients outcome research team pneumonia severity index.
STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the usefulness of procalcitonin serum levels as a predictor of etiology and prognosis in adult… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Validation of predictive rules and indices of severity for community acquired pneumonia.
BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to validate the modified American Thoracic Society (ATS) rule and two British Thoracic Society… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Plasma d-dimer levels correlate with outcomes in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
STUDY OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of plasma d-dimer levels in patients with… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Etiology, reasons for hospitalization, risk classes, and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in patients hospitalized on the basis of conventional admission criteria.
We performed an observational analysis of prospectively collected data on 533 nonseverely immunosuppressed adult patients who… (More)
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