Comparison of the qSOFA and CRB-65 for risk prediction in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

Intensive Care Med. 2016 Dec;42(12):2108-2110. doi: 10.1007/s00134-016-4517-y. Epub 2016 Sep 19.

Martin Kolditz¹, André Scherag², Gernot Rohde^{3

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5}, Santiago Ewig⁶, Tobias Welte^{7

4

5}, Mathias Pletz^{8

4}; CAPNETZ Study Group

¹ Division of Pulmonology, Medical Department I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Germany. martin.kolditz@uniklinikum-dresden.de.
² Research Group Clinical Epidemiology, Integrated Research and Treatment Center, Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁴ CAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany.
⁵ Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
⁶ Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Department of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, EVK Herne and Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
⁷ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
⁸ Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.

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