score_curb65: Score community-acquired pneumonia severity using CURB-65

Description Usage Arguments Value Caveats References

View source: R/pneumonia.R

Description

The CURB-65 community-acquired pneumonia severity score is used to estimate mortality.

Usage

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score_curb65(confusion, urea, respiratory_rate, sbp, dbp, age)

Arguments

confusion

Mental confusion (TRUE or FALSE).

urea

Blood urea nitrogen (mmol/l).

respiratory_rate

Respiratory rate (/min).

sbp

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg).

dbp

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg).

age

Age (years).

Value

CURB-65 score (points), or NA if any parameters are NA.

Caveats

None at this time.

References

Lim, W. S. Defining community acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study. Thorax 58, 377–382 (2003)..


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