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Severity scales in community-acquired pneumonia: what matters apart from death?
  1. Kirsty Challen
  1. Correspondence to Kirsty Challen, Specialty Registrar in Emergency Medicine, North West Deanery, MRC PhD student in Health Services Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Regent Road, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; kirstychallen{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2010.154948

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    Chalmers et al1 and Loke et al2 present excellent meta-analyses of the value of various tools in predicting mortality from community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). There is a continuing fallacious belief, however, that only patients at high risk of death are at high risk of complications. Of the 47 …

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      Thorax 2010; 66 1094-1095 Published Online First: 21 Dec 2010. doi: 10.1136/thx.2010.156554