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Current Infectious Disease Reports
Erschienen in: Current Infectious Disease Reports 2/2013

01.04.2013 | RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS (F ARNOLD, SECTION EDITOR)

Hospital Admission Decision for Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

verfasst von: Stefano Aliberti, Paola Faverio, Francesco Blasi

Erschienen in: Current Infectious Disease Reports | Ausgabe 2/2013

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Abstract

Where to treat patients is probably the single most important decision in the management of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), with a substantial impact on both patients’ outcomes and health-care costs. Several factors can contribute to the decision of the site of care for CAP patients, including physicians’ experience and clinical judgment and severity scores developed to predict mortality, as well as social and health-care-related issues. The recognition, both in the community and in the emergency department, of the presence of severe sepsis and acute respiratory failure and the coexistence with unstable comorbidities other than CAP are indications for hospital admission. In all the other cases, physician’s choice to admit CAP patients should be validated against at least one objective tool of risk assessment, with a clear understanding of each score’s limitations.
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Metadaten
Titel
Hospital Admission Decision for Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
verfasst von
Stefano Aliberti
Paola Faverio
Francesco Blasi
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2013
Verlag
Current Science Inc.
Erschienen in
Current Infectious Disease Reports / Ausgabe 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1523-3847
Elektronische ISSN: 1534-3146
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-013-0323-7

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