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SUBMITTER: Shirata M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668907 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shirata Masahiro M Ito Isao I Ishida Tadashi T Tachibana Hiromasa H Tanabe Naoya N Konishi Satoshi S Oi Issei I Hamao Nobuyoshi N Nishioka Kensuke K Matsumoto Hisako H Yasutomo Yoshiro Y Kadowaki Seizo S Ohnishi Hisashi H Tomioka Hiromi H Nishimura Takashi T Hasegawa Yoshinori Y Nakagawa Atsushi A Hirai Toyohiro T
Scientific reports 20211213 1
The discriminative power of CURB-65 for mortality in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is suspected to decrease with age. However, a useful prognostic prediction model for older patients with CAP has not been established. This study aimed to develop and validate a new scoring system for predicting mortality in older patients with CAP. We recruited two prospective cohorts including patients aged ≥ 65 years and hospitalized with CAP. In the derivation (n = 872) and validation cohorts (n = 1,158), ...[more]