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    Attention COACH STUDY participants:

    The principal investigators of the study request that you use the official version of the modified score here.

    Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia (SCAP) Score

    Predicts risk of adverse outcomes in CAP patients in the ED.

    IMPORTANT

    Launched during COVID-19 crisis.

    Tips for COVID-19: Use to determine floor vs. ICU. Likely similar performance to SMART-COP.

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    Why Use

    In the ED, after diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia is made, calculating SCAP may help predict the chance for "severe CAP", defined by adverse outcomes including inpatient mortality, septic shock, and/or need for mechanical ventilation.

    • High risk SCAP showed higher rates of adverse outcomes than high risk PSI and CURB-65, potentially helping choose which patients are at most need for the ICU with higher specificity (Yandiola 2009).

    • All validations were done in the same Spanish hospital network, by researchers from the same hospital, so may not be generalizable and there is still room for robust external validation.

    • If applying to a patient with potential COVID-19, keep in mind that age has a much stronger odds ratio for increasing mortality risk in COVID-19 patients than with other viral PNA patients.

    Assists with disposition decision after diagnosing CAP in the ED.

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    Dr. Pedro P. España

    About the Creator

    Pedro P. España, MD, PhD, is clinical chief of pneumology at the Galdakao-Usansolo Hospital in Spain. His research has been utilized in many different hospitals to predict the risk of adverse outcomes in ED patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Dr. España’s primary research is focused on diagnosis of severe community-acquired pneumonia and the connection between the disease etiology and patient characteristics.

    To view Dr. Pedro P. España's publications, visit PubMed

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    MDCalc loves calculator creators – researchers who, through intelligent and often complex methods, discover tools that describe scientific facts that can then be applied in practice. These are real scientific discoveries about the nature of the human body, which can be invaluable to physicians taking care of patients.
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