Community-acquired pneumonia severity assessment tools in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: a validation and clinical applicability study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To externally validate community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) tools on patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia from two distinct countries, and compare their performance with recently developed COVID-19 mortality risk stratification tools.

Methods

We evaluated 11 risk stratification scores in a binational retrospective cohort of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia in São Paulo and Barcelona: Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), CURB, CURB-65, qSOFA, Infectious Disease Society of America and American Thoracic Society Minor Criteria, REA-ICU, SCAP, SMART-COP, CALL, COVID GRAM and 4C. The primary and secondary outcomes were 30-day in-hospital mortality and 7-day intensive care unit (ICU) admission, respectively. We compared their pred

SUBMITTER: Lazar Neto F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8016546 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature