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Drug Resistance in Pneumonia Score
Aka: Drug Resistance in Pneumonia Score, DRIP Score
- See Also
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonia Management
- Multidrug Resistance Score (MDR Score)
- Healthcare Associated Pneumonia (HCAP)
- Indications
- Identify Pneumonia patients at risk for multi-drug resistance (esp. Healthcare Associated Pneumonia or HCAP)
- Criteria: Major (assign 2 points for each positive)
- Antibiotic Use in the last 60 days
- Residence in a long-term care facility
- Tube feeding
- Prior drug resistant Pneumonia in the last year
- Criteria: Minor (assign 1 point for each positive)
- Hospitalization in the last 60 days
- Chronic pulmonary disease
- Poor functional status
- Gastric acid suppression (H2 Blocker or Proton Pump Inhibitor for at least 2 weeks)
- Wound care
- MRSA colonization in the last year
- Interpretation
- Total 2 points for each positive major criteria, and 1 point for each minor criteria (total 14 possible)
- Score <4 does not require broad spectrum antibiotics for Pneumonia hospital admissions
- References
- Webb (2016) Antimicrob Agents chemother 60(5): 2652-63 +PMID:26856838 [PubMed]