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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

CRB-65 for Risk Stratification and Prediction of Prognosis in Pulmonary Embolism.

Karsten Keller, Volker H Schmitt, Ingo Sagoschen, Thomas Münzel, Christine Espinola-Klein, Lukas Hobohm

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karsten KellerDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0820-9584
Volker H SchmittDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5070-7280
Ingo SagoschenDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9295-6223
Thomas MünzelDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5503-4150
Christine Espinola-KleinDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
Lukas HobohmDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPulmonary embolism (PE) is accompanied by high morbidity and mortality. The search for simple and easily assessable risk stratification scores with favourable effectiveness is still ongoing, and prognostic performance of the CRB-65 score in PE might promising.

methodsThe German nationwide inpatient sample was used for this study. All patient cases of patients with PE in Germany 2005-2020 were included and stratified for CRB-65 risk class: low-risk group (CRB-65-score 0 points) vs. high-risk group (CRB-65-score ≥1 points).

resultsOverall, 1,373,145 patient cases of patients with PE (76.6% aged ≥65 years, 47.0% females) were included. Among these, 1,051,244 patient cases (76.6%) were classified as high-risk according to CRB-65 score (≥1 points). The majority of high-risk patients according to CRB-65 score were females (55.8%). Additionally, high-risk patients according to CRB-65 score showed an aggravated comorbidity profile with increased Charlson comorbidity index (5.0 [IQR 4.0-7.0] vs. 2.0 [0.0-3.0],

conclusionsRisk stratification with CRB-65 score was helpful for identifying PE patients being at higher risk of adverse in-hospital events. The high-risk class according to CRB-65 score (≥1 points) was independently associated with a 5.5-fold increased occurrence of in-hospital death.

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mortalitypneumoniapulmonary embolismrisk stratificationvenous thromboembolism

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