CORB is the best pneumonia severity score for elderly hospitalised patients with suspected pneumonia.

Abstract

Pneumonia severity scoring systems have been developed to identify patients at highest mortality risk, and are used in guidelines to limit use of broad-spectrum antibiotics to patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia. A retrospective audit of hospitalised general internal medicine patients with pneumonia was performed to assess the diagnostic performance of various pneumonia severity scores in an elderly general internal medicine population.

• Authors: E Williams, J Girdwood, E Janus, H Karunajeewa
• Journal: Internal medicine journal (Intern Med J) Vol. 44 Issue 6 Pg. 613-5 (Jun 2014) ISSN: 1445-5994 [Electronic] Australia
• PMID: 24946819 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Evaluation Study, Journal Article)
• Copyright: © 2014 The Authors; Internal Medicine Journal © 2014 Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Topics

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Community-Acquired Infections (classification, diagnosis, mortality)
• Comorbidity
• Dementia (epidemiology)
• Female
• Hospitalization
• Humans
• Inpatients (statistics & numerical data)
• Institutionalization
• Male
• Medical Audit
• Neoplasms (epidemiology)
• Pneumonia (classification, diagnosis, mortality)
• Prognosis
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Factors
• Severity of Illness Index
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Survival Analysis
• Victoria (epidemiology)