Table 2.
Severity score
| I. Clinical signs and symptoms | Score if present |
|---|---|
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| Cough | 10 |
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| Dyspnoea | 10 |
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| Night sweats | 10 |
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| Haemoptysis | |
| At least one episode | 10 |
| More than one episode | 20 |
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| Chest pain | 10 |
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| Decreased body mass index (BMI) in adults | |
| BMI < 25 to 18.5 | 2 |
| BMI < 18.5 to 17 | 4 |
| BMI < 17 to 16 | 6 |
| BMI < 16 | 10 |
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| Low BMI for age percentile in children | |
| BMI < 50th but > 25th percentile for age | 2 |
| BMI in the 25th to no more than 10th percentile | 4 |
| BMI in the 10th to more than 5th percentile | 6 |
| BMI below the 5th percentile | 10 |
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| Anemia | 10 |
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| Fever | 10 |
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| Signs at lung auscultation | 10 |
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| Extra-thoracic involvement | 20 |
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| II. Chest-X-ray assessment | Score if present |
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| Extension of the lesion (each lung is assessed independently) | |
| No more than one third of the lung field affected | 10 |
| One third to no more than two third of the lung field affected | 20 |
| Two third or more of the lung field affected | 30 |
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| Type of lesion (each lung is assessed independently) | |
| Infiltration patterns | 10 |
| Pleural effusion | 10 |
| Cavitary lesion | 20 |
| Caseating pneumonia | 20 |
| Miliary tuberculosis | 20 |
| Lung fibrosis | 20 |
| Intra-thoracic lymphadenopathy | 10 |