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Lower respiratory tract infection outcomes are predicted better by an age .80 years than by CURB-65To the Editors:In a recent issue of the European Respiratory Journal, Bont et al.[1] demonstrated that increasing age, previous hospitalisation, heart failure, diabetes, use of oral glucocorticoids, previous use of antibiotics, a diagnosis of pneumonia and an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were independent predictors of 30-day hospitalisation or death in patients with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI). They provided a new scoring system using the variables above for the prognostic predictors in the elderly primary-care patients with LRTI [1].Although some of the predictor variables have been confirmed by other studies, we would like to point out that their results are very important, much more so than previous results.

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