ACDD⁴ score: A simple tool for assessing risk of pneumonia after stroke

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• 作者：Sandeep Kumar ; MD^a ; ^b ; ^{skumar@bidmc.harvard.edu} ; Sarah Marchina ; PhD^a ; Joseph Massaro ; PhD^c ; Wayne Feng ; MS ; MD^d ; Sourabh Lahoti ; MD^e ; Magdy Selim ; MD ; PhD^a ; ^b ; Shoshana J. Herzig ; MD ; MPH^b ; ^e ; ^f
• 关键词：Risk score ; Infection ; Stroke care ; Hospital-acquired pneumonia prediction
• 刊名：Journal of the Neurological Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：372
• 期：Complete
• 页码：399-402
• 全文大小：201 K
• 卷排序：372

文摘

ACDD4 scale is a very pragmatic tool for predicting pneumonia in non-ventilated stroke patients Needs only 4 clinical variables for computing pneumonia risk Risk of pneumonia varies from 2% to 33.9% with scores of 0 to 7, respectively Instrument shows excellent goodness-of-fit and discrimination Requires external validation using an independent cohort