%0 Journal Article %A Priya Daniel %A Thomas Bewick %A Sally Welham %A Tricia M Mckeever %A Wei Shen Lim %T Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit %D 2017 %R 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405 %J Thorax %P 376-379 %V 72 %N 4 %X A key objective of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) audit was to determine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised adults given a primary discharge code of pneumonia but who did not fulfil accepted diagnostic criteria for pneumonia. Adults miscoded as having pneumonia (n=1251) were older compared with adults with CAP (n=6660) (median 80 vs 78 years, p<0.001) and had more comorbid disease, significantly fewer respiratory symptoms (fever, cough, dyspnoea, pleuritic pain), more constitutional symptoms (general deterioration, falls) and significantly lower 30-day inpatient mortality (14.3% vs 17.0%, adjusted OR 0.75, p=0.003). %U https://thorax.bmj.com/content/thoraxjnl/72/4/376.full.pdf