Community-acquired pneumonia: use of clinical characteristics of acutely admitted patients for the development of a diagnostic model - a cross-sectional multicentre study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of adults with suspected acute community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) on hospitalisation, evaluate their prediction performance for CAP and compare the performance of the model to the initial assessment of the physician.

Design

Cross-sectional, multicentre study.

Setting

The data originated from the INfectious DisEases in Emergency Departments study and were collected prospectively from patient interviews and medical records. The study included four Danish medical emergency departments (EDs) and was conducted between 1 March 2021 and 28 February 2022.

Participants

A total of 954 patients admitted with suspected infection were included in the study.

Primary and secondary outcome

The primary

SUBMITTER: Cartuliares MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11141191 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature