Predictive accuracy of CURB-65 as comparedto PSI scorein the severity assessment of community acquired pneumonia
Abstract
Introduction: Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI) and CURB-65 rule for community acquired pneumonia (CAP) have been developed to stratify patients based on mortality. Lack of a risk stratifying score like PSI or CURB-65 can lead to significant delay in starting treatment. This study was conducted to find out the ability of CURB-65 score and PSI to predict clinically relevant outcomes.
Methods: 78 patients diagnosed as CAP admitted to a tertiary care hospital were enrolled into the study. Detailed clinical history was noted and CURB-65 and PSI scores were given with the help of a structured questionnaire in <24 hours of admission. The patients were revisited at day 3 and at discharge and data collected.
Results:Out of 78 patients included in the study, 60 were males and 18 were females. Of the 78 patients, 14 died accounting for aninhospital mortality of 17.94%. Mortality in the mild, moderate and severe groups of CURB-65 were 0%, 16.7% and 47.8% respectively. Mortality in the mild, moderate and severe groups of PSI were 1.8%, 50% and 80% respectively. Area under the curve (AUC) for CURB-65 and PSI in terms of inhospital mortality were 0.935 and 0.920 respectively.
Conclusion:The CURB-65 and PSI scores correlated well with mortality and other severity indicators. The CURB-65 has a better discriminatory power than PSI inour study. Because of its simplicity in addition to its better discriminatory power than PSI, CURB-65 may be better suited as a severity scoring system in CAP.
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