Performance of risk scores in patients with acute exacerbations of COPD.
Lídia Marília Valente Marques Sousa GomesSamuel PereiraBernardo Sousa-PintoCidália RodriguesPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2023)
The NEWS288-92% safely reduces the need for clinical monitoring in patients with AECOPD when compared with the NEWS2. The NEWS2 and NEWS288-92% appear to be good predictors of the length of hospital stay and need for NIV, but they do not replace the DECAF and mDECAF scores as predictors of mortality.