Table 1 Predisposing conditions and modifiers available before or within six hours after hospital admission used to calculate the lung injury prediction score (LIPS):[22].

Pneumonia

Yes/No

Consensus Conference[24]

Sepsis

Yes/No, severe

SCCM-ACCP definition[25]

Pancreatitis

Yes/No

Practice guidelines in acute pancreatitis[26]

Aspiration (pre-admission)

Yes/No

Inhalation of food or gastric contents[27]

High risk trauma

Lung contusion, smoke inhalation, near-drowning, multiple bone, brain injury

From Derdak [28]

High risk surgery

Aortic vascular, spine, thoracic, acute abdomen, emergency

From Arozullah et al [29, 30]

Risk Modifiers

Alcohol use

Yes/No, amount (# of drinks a week)

More than 2 drinks per day or a history of alcohol-related illness or admission[31, 32]

Smoking

Never/former/current/# of pack-years

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Diabetes mellitus*

Yes/No

Diabetes care 2009[33]

Interstitial lung disease

Yes/No

ATS-ERS Consensus classification of IIP[34]

Chemotherapy

Yes/No

Custom, cancer chemotherapeutic drugs during the 6 months prior to hospitalization

Tachypnea (respiratory rate>30),

Based on the worst value during the first 6 hours

High inspired oxygen concentration (FIO2>0.35)

Based on the worst value during the first 6 hours

Hypoalbuminemia

Serum albumin <3.5 g/dL, the absence of measurement considered normal