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Capsule Commentary on Sanz et al., A Composite of Functional Status and Pneumonia Severity Index Improves the Prediction of Pneumonia Mortality in Older Patients

Author: Barbara Jones, MD MSc

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 4/2018

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Severity assessment in pneumonia is a challenging activity that requires clinicians to pursue, recognize, and incorporate multiple pieces of data to make critical decisions, including resuscitation, site-of-care, and antibiotic selection. At best, bedside severity assessment tools such as the pneumonia severity index1 can aid overloaded clinicians by reducing biases and raising awareness of important contributors to severity that may be overlooked. At their worst, however, they oversimplify severity assessment, and over-reliance on them can reduce our attention to other important information. …

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Sanz F, Morales-Suárez-Varela M, Fernández E, Force L, Pérez-Lozano MJ, Martín V, Egurrola M, Castilla J, Astray J, Toledo D, Domínguez, A. A composite of functional status and pneumonia severity index improves the prediction of pneumonia mortality in older patients. J Gen Intern Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-017-4267-8.

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Title: Capsule Commentary on Sanz et al., A Composite of Functional Status and Pneumonia Severity Index Improves the Prediction of Pneumonia Mortality in Older Patients
Author: Barbara Jones, MD MSc
Publication date: 01-04-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-017-4293-6

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