Abstract

ASSESSMENT OF RISK AND SEVERITY OF COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA IN ADULTS AND GERIATRICS

Kasukurthi Mounika* and B. Pragna Malavika

ABSTRACT

Community-acquired pneumonia has a significant impact on elderly individuals, who are affected more frequently and with more severe consequences than younger populations. Clinical prognostic counts are progressively more used to streamline care in well-resourced settings. The prospective benefits of clinical deterioration and poor results, delivering higher-level clinical care and increasing efficiency are clear. Clinical researchers working in such a system to consider the generalizability of existing severity scores in their populations, where the performance of scores is suboptimal, to promote efforts to develop and validate new tools for the benefits of patients and healthcare systems. The present study risk and severity of community-acquired pneumonia in adults and geriatrics was conducted on 150 patients out of 150 patients 2.2:2.4 were adults and geriatrics among those patients’ geriatrics were affected and their severity and risk were high for geriatrics patients. Among 150 patients’ males were more affected than females due to their comorbid illness. 5.3:2 ratio of males and females in both the groups and high clinical care and increased the efficiency in males. The clinical researchers were counselled the patient to decrease their comorbid conditions and increase their health care conditions. After the counselling, patients have decreased the risk and severity scores of pneumonias.

Keywords: pneumonia, severity of illness index, community acquired pneumonia, health resources, risk of pneumonia, comorbid illness, clinical care, males, and females.