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Early identification of severe community-acquired pneumonia: a retrospective observational study.

Frances Susanna GrudzinskaKerrie AldridgeSian HughesPeter NightingaleDhruv ParekhMansoor BangashRachel DancerJaimin PatelElizabeth SapeyDavid R ThickettDavinder P Dosanjh
Published in: BMJ open respiratory research (2019)
All four scoring systems can stratify according to increasing risk in CAP; however, when a confident diagnosis of pneumonia can be made, these data support the use of pneumonia-specific tools rather than generic sepsis or early warning scores.
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