Mortality prediction to hospitalized patients with influenza pneumonia: PO₂ /FiO₂ combined lymphocyte count is the answer.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) severity scores perform well in predicting mortality of CAP patients, but their applicability in influenza pneumonia is powerless.

Objectives

The aim of our research was to test the efficiency of PO₂ /FiO₂ and CAP severity scores in predicting mortality and intensive care unit (ICU) admission with influenza pneumonia patients.

Methods

We reviewed all patients with positive influenza virus RNA detection in Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital during the 2009-2014 influenza seasons. Outpatients, inpatients with no pneumonia and incomplete data were excluded. We used receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) to verify the accuracy of severity scores or indices as mortality predictors in the study patients.

SUBMITTER: Shi SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7162301 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature