The Journal of infection
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The Journal of infection · Feb 2010
Review Comparative StudyValidation and comparison of SCAP as a predictive score for identifying low-risk patients in community-acquired pneumonia.
(1) To validate the Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia (SCAP) score in predicting 30-day mortality. (2) To validate its ability to identifying patients at low risk of death. (3) To compare it against the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), and the British Thoracic Society's CURB-65 rules. ⋯ The SCAP is valid to predict 30-day mortality among low-risk patients and identifies a larger proportion of patients as low-risk than the other studied rules.
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The Journal of infection · Feb 2010
PTX3 predicts severe disease in febrile patients at the emergency department.
The long pentraxin PTX3 is a promising marker of disease severity in severely ill patients. In order to identify patients warranting critical care as quickly as possible, we investigated the value of PTX3 as a biomarker for disease severity in patients presenting with fever at the emergency department. ⋯ PTX3 may be a useful marker for differentiation of patients with severe disease in patients presenting with fever to the emergency department.