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Respiratory Medicine (2011) 105, 1732e1738 ava ilable at www.science di rect .com j o u r n al h o m e p a g e : w w w .e l s e vi e r . c o m /l o c a t e/ r m e d Low CURB-65 is of limited value in deciding discharge of patients with community-acquired pneumonia* Stefano Aliberti a,*, Julio Ramirez b, Roberto Cosentini c, Anna Maria Brambilla c, Anna Maria Zanaboni d, Valeria Rossetti e, Paolo Tarsia e, Paula Peyrani b, Federico Piffer e, Francesco Blasi e a Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Prevenzione, University of Milan-Bicocca, Clinica pneumologica, AO San Gerardo, Via Pergolesi 33, 20052 Monza, Italy b Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, 40202 KY, USA c ` Emergency Medicine Department, IRCCS Fondazione Ca Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122 Milan, Italy d Computer Science Department, University of Milan, Via Comelico 39, 20135 Milan, Italy e ` Dipartimento toraco-polmonare e cardio-circolatorio, University of Milan, IRCCS Fondazione Ca Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122 Milan, Italy Received 2 May 2011; accepted 13 July 2011 Available online 6 August 2011 KEYWORDS Summary Community-acquired Background: The relationship between clinical judgment and indications of the CURB-65 score pneumonia; in deciding the site-of-care for patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has not CURB-65 score; been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to evaluate reasons for hospitalization of Site-of-care; CAP patients with CURB-65