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

Aliberti, S., Faverio, P., Blasi, F. (2013). Hospital admission decision for patients with community-acquired pneumonia. CURRENT INFECTIOUS DISEASE REPORTS, 15(2), 167-176 [10.1007/s11908-013-0323-7].

Hospital admission decision for patients with community-acquired pneumonia

ALIBERTI, STEFANO
;
Faverio, P;
2013

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
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
pneumonia, community-acquired pneumonia, hospitalization, severity
English
2013
15
2
167
176
none
Aliberti, S., Faverio, P., Blasi, F. (2013). Hospital admission decision for patients with community-acquired pneumonia. CURRENT INFECTIOUS DISEASE REPORTS, 15(2), 167-176 [10.1007/s11908-013-0323-7].
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