Severe Community‐Acquired Pneumonia: Validation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Guidelines to Predict an Intensive Care Unit Admission | Zendy

Adamantia Liapikou | Zendy; Miquel Ferrer | Zendy; Eva Polverino | Zendy; Valentina Balasso | Zendy; Mariano Esperatti | Zendy; R. Piñer | Zendy; José Mensa | Zendy; Néstor Luque | Zendy; Santiago Ewig | Zendy; Rosario Menéndez | Zendy; Michael S. Niederman | Zendy; Antoni Torres | Zendy

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Severe Community‐Acquired Pneumonia: Validation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Guidelines to Predict an Intensive Care Unit Admission

Author(s) -

Adamantia Liapikou,

Miquel Ferrer,

Eva Polverino,

Valentina Balasso,

Mariano Esperatti,

R. Piñer,

José Mensa,

Néstor Luque,

Santiago Ewig,

Rosario Menéndez,

Michael S. Niederman,

Antoni Torres

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/596307

Subject(s) - medicine , community acquired pneumonia , intensive care unit , septic shock , pneumonia , mechanical ventilation , severity of illness , intensive care , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , sepsis

The recent Infectious Disease Society of America/American Thoracic Society guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults defined a predictive rule to identify patients with severe CAP to determine the need for intensive care unit (ICU) admission. We clinically validated this rule.

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