Evaluation of the HANDOC Score and the 2023 International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases and European Society of Cardiology Duke Clinical Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis Among Patients With Streptococcal Bacteremia.
Nicolas FourréVirgile ZimmermannLaurence SennPierre MonneyGeorgios TzimasGiorgia CaruanaPiergiorgio TozziMatthias KirschBenoit GueryMatthaios Papadimitriou-OlivgerisPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
The HANDOC score showed an excellent NPV to identify episodes at high risk for IE. Among the different versions of the Duke criteria, the 2023 Duke-ISCVID version fared better for the diagnosis of IE among streptococcal bacteremia.