We have greatly enjoyed reading the recently published article by Zhou and colleagues
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]. The authors evaluated 226 consecutive adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia
(CAP) admitted in ED of a tertiary teaching hospital and investigated the risk stratification
and prognostic prediction value of procalcitonin and several clinical severity scores
on patients with community-acquired pneumonia in ED. They found that combination of
procalcitonin and The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score achieved the
highest superiority to other combinations in predicting not only severe CAP, but also
28-day mortality.- Zhou H.
- Guo S.
- Lan T.
- Ma S.
- Zhang F.
- Zhao Z.
The risk stratification and prognostic prediction value of procalcitonin and clinical
severity scores on patients with community-acquired pneumonia in emergency department:
prediction value of procalcitonin and severity scores for CAP.
Am J Emerg Med. 2018; (in press, Mar 21. pii: S0735-6757(18)30242–0)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2018.03.050
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Publication History
Published online: May 29, 2018
Accepted:
May 28,
2018
Received:
May 4,
2018
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