CURB-65 pneumonia severity assessment adapted for electronic decision support.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate severity assessment is crucial to the initial management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The CURB-65 (confusion, uremia, respiratory rate, BP, age ≥ 65 years) score contains data that are entered routinely in electronic medical records and are, thus, electronically calculable. The aim of this study was to determine whether an electronically generated severity estimate using CURB-65 elements as continuous and weighted variables better predicts 30-day mortality than the traditional CURB-65.

Methods

In a retrospective cohort study at a US university-affiliated community teaching hospital, we identified 2,069 patients aged 18 years or older with CAP confirmed by radiographic findings in the ED. CURB-65 elements were extracted from the electronic medica

SUBMITTER: Jones BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3198487 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature