Pneumonia season doesn’t just fill your waiting room – it fills your brain with decisions: Admit or discharge? Floor or ICU? CURB-65, PSI/PORT, and SMART-COP all promise to help, but they’re not built to answer the same question. This quick comparison walks you through how each score thinks, where each one shines, and when a “low-risk” patient might actually be one bad hour away from crashing.
Don’t just diagnose pneumonia — predict who might acutely decompensate.
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