title: Severity assessment in community-acquired pneumonia: a review.
abstract: Severity assessment is an important early step in the management of patients presenting with community-acquired pneumonia. Various pneumonia-specific scores, generic sepsis scores and predictive biomarkers have been proposed as tools to aid clinicians in key management decisions. However, there is no uniform agreement about the optimum severity assessment tool to use. This review provides a summary of current evidence surrounding severity assessment in adult patients presenting with community-acquired pneumonia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. aransinga@gmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singanayagam
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Chalmers
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019540:Area Under Curve; D015415:Biomarkers; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers