Galen eCalcs - Calculator: Pneumonia Severity Index

Description

Calculates the Pneumonia Severity Index

Calculator Search/Filter Keywords

At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching. The following calculator keywords are delivered by default for the Pneumonia Severity Index calculator:

Specialties

• Critical Care
• Family Practice
• Infectious Disease
• Internal Medicine
• Pulmonology

Systems

• Respiratory

Calculator Inputs

Input	Mapping Type	Description
Age	Demographics	Patient Age
Sex	Demographics	Patient Sex
Nursing Home Resident	Manual Input	Whether the patient is a nursing home resident
Renal Disease	Problems	Renal Disease
Liver Disease	Problems	Liver Disease
Congestive Heart Failure	Problems	Congestive Heart Failure
Cerebrovascular Disease	Problems	Cerebrovascular Disease
Neoplasia	Problems	Neoplasia
Altered Mental Status	Manual Input	Altered Mental Status
Systolic Blood Pressure	Problems	Systolic Blood Pressure
Temperature	Vitals	Temperature
Respiratory Rate	Vitals	Respiratory Rate
Heart Rate	Vitals	Heart Rate
PH	Results	PH
PO2	Results	PO2
Sodium	Results	Sodium
Hematocrit	Results	Hematocrit
Glucose	Results	Glucose
Blood Urea Nitrogen	Results	Blood Urea Nitrogen
Pleural Effusion	Problems	Pleural Effusion

Calculator Outputs

Output	Mapping Type	Description
Severity Index	Result	The calculated pneumonia severity index

References

http://pda.ahrq.gov/clinic/psi/psicalc.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia_severity_index