Nine prognostic models (BTS2, BTS3, CURB, CURB-65, A-DROP, CURB-age, SOAR, CURSI, CURASI) [ 21– 26, 26, 31] were constructed using both clinical and laboratory parameters.
To date, several different pneumonia severity indexes, such as the pneumonia severity index, CURB, CURB-65, CRB and CRB-65, have been evaluated [ 16- 18].
Several risk stratification algorithms, such as CURB, CURB-65 and Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), have been developed to help identify patients at high risk of CAP-related complications, and to make appropriate site-of-care decisions [ 15- 17].
The impact of potential confounding factors was unclear in many studies, whereas eleven models (BTS 1, 2, 3, CURB, CURB-65, CRB-65, MRI, PSI, SOAR, AFSS, and PARB) [ 11, 14, 21– 29, 29] used appropriate statistical methods (i.e., use of logistic regression models or statistical methods to choose factors that were most predictive of mortality) for the derivation of the prognostic score.
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Workers could then plow from curb to curb when the snow began falling the next morning.
Even drugs taken to curb heartburn can curb the desire for sex.
At 8 p.m. Thursday, a wall of police officers stretching curb to curb slowly made its way up Broadway in downtown Oakland.
Ms. Lyle said she visited the Loop on Thursday evening and watched with envy as city crews blocked off LaSalle Street "so they could clean curb to curb".
"A curb — especially two parallel curbs — says 'street,' no matter how much you paint it," he said.
