Can a Novel Clinical Risk Score Improve Pneumonia Prediction in Acute Stroke Care? A UK Multicenter Cohort Study [Stroke]

Conclusions
The ISAN score is a simple tool for predicting SAP in clinical practice. External validation is required in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke cohorts.

Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - January 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Smith, C. J., Bray, B. D., Hoffman, A., Meisel, A., Heuschmann, P. U., Wolfe, C. D. A., Tyrrell, P. J., Rudd, A. G., the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party Group Tags: Stroke Source Type: research