Usefulness of a predictive model to hospitalize patients with low-risk community-acquired pneumonia

ConclusionsScales are rarely used to estimate the severity of CAP at the emergency department. The decision to hospitalize or not a patient largely depends on the clinical experience of the physician. Our predictive model showed a good power to discriminate the patients who required hospitalization. Further studies are warranted to validate these results.
Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - Category: Microbiology Source Type: research