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QJM Advance Access originally published online on March 18, 2009
QJM 2009 102(6):379-388; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp027
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Severity assessment in community-acquired pneumonia: a review

A. Singanayagam, J.D. Chalmers and A.T. Hill

From the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK

Address correspondence to Aran Singanayagam, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK. email: aransinga{at}gmail.com


  Abstract

Severity assessment is an important early step in the management of patients presenting with community-acquired pneumonia. Various pneumonia-specific scores, generic sepsis scores and predictive biomarkers have been proposed as tools to aid clinicians in key management decisions. However, there is no uniform agreement about the optimum severity assessment tool to use. This review provides a summary of current evidence surrounding severity assessment in adult patients presenting with community-acquired pneumonia.


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