title: CORB is the best pneumonia severity score for elderly hospitalised patients with suspected pneumonia.
abstract: Pneumonia severity scoring systems have been developed to identify patients at highest mortality risk, and are used in guidelines to limit use of broad-spectrum antibiotics to patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia. A retrospective audit of hospitalised general internal medicine patients with pneumonia was performed to assess the diagnostic performance of various pneumonia severity scores in an elderly general internal medicine population.
authors.affiliation: General Internal Medicine, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Girdwood
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Janus
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Karunajeewa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D015897:Comorbidity; D003704:Dementia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014739:Victoria / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: aged; communicable disease; internal medicine; pneumonia; respiratory tract infection