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Usefulness of SMART-COP score in prognosis of aspiration pneumonia
Tatsuya Kodama1, Yoshiko Kichikawa1, Norikazu Mataki2
1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Mishuku Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Introduction:
Aspiration pneumonia is becoming a common syndrome in the elderly in aging societies such as Japan. Although a number of tools have been validated for prediction of mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, none have been established for aspiration pneumonia. The purpose of this study was to access the correlations of the A-DROP, CURB-65 and SMART-COP scores at the emergency visit with the 30-day mortality risk in patients with aspiration pneumonia.
Methods:
We Titleretrospectively investigated 210 patients who presented to the emergency department at Mishuku Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Results:
The areas under the curve for the ability of A-DROP, Curb-65 and SMART-COP scores to predict the 30-day mortality risk were 0.6359, 0.6468 and 0.7594, respectively. Among the parameters of SMART-COP, involvement of multiple lobes on chest radiographs is the best predictor of the mortality.
Conclusions:
The SMART-COP score can be a better predictor of the 30-day mortality risk.
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