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Table 1 Selected scoring systems for disease severity

From: Assessment of disease severity in hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia by the use of validated scoring systems

System^a	Year launched	Subcriteria^b	Reference^c	Validation^d
qSOFA	2016	3	[7]	[8,9,10,11]
CRB65	-	4	-	[12,13,14]
CURB65	2003	5	[5]	[15, 16]
SIRS (Sepsis 1)	1992	4	[17]	[18, 19]
NEWS2	2017	7	[20]	[21,22,23]
SOFA (Sepsis-3)	2016	6	[24]	[25,26,27]
PSI	1997	20	[14]	[15, 28]
IDSA/ATS	2007	11	[29]	[30,31,32,33]
Sepsis-2	2003	A myriade	[34]	-

^aSee appendix for full outlining of system name and subcriteria
^bNumber of subcriteria included in system
^cReference to the original publication of the system
^dRelevant validation studies

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