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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2013 Apr;26(2):151–158. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0b013e32835ebc6d

Table 1.

Risk factors associated with long-term mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

Age (> 65 years of age) Neurocognitive disorders
Male Cardiovascular diseases
Black Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Nursing home residence Preexisting malignancy
High school level or less Poor nutritional states
Pneumonia characteristics Charlson comorbidity score
Lack of fever Pharmacotherapies
Healthcare associated pneumonia Corticosteroids
Pleural effusion Immunizations
Gram-negative bacilli infection Statins
Severity of disease at presentation Other
Low albumin level Do not resuscitate order
Inflammatory and cardiovascular biomarkers Living will

Adapted from multiple sources [4,11,12,13,1420,21,22,23,24,25,26, 27,28,2933,34,35,3638,39,40,4151,52,53,54,5570,7174,75,76,77,78,79,80,81].