Development and Internal Validation of a Prediction Model to Risk Stratify Children With Suspected Community-Acquired Pneumonia.

Todd Adam FlorinLilliam AmbroggioDouglas LorenzAndrea KachelmeyerRichard M RuddyNathan KuppermannSamir S Shah

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)

We derived and internally validated a score that accurately predicts disease severity in children with suspected CAP. Once externally validated, this score has potential to facilitate management decisions by providing individualized risk estimates that can be used in conjunction with clinical judgment to improve the care of children with suspected CAP.

Keyphrases

young adults
pulmonary embolism
community acquired pneumonia
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