An Easy-to-Use Tool for Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with COVID-19

Developed and validated in >57,000 patients, a new risk stratification score performs better than previous scores.

In the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 epidemic, there is an urgent need to stratify patients according to risk for death in order to optimize management and critical care allocation. Several COVID-19–specific scores and evaluations of standard, well-characterized disease severity scores in this special patient population have already been presented (NEJM JW Infect Dis Oct 2020 and Eur Respir J 2020 Jul 2; [e-pub]). Now, an international coronavirus consortium has presented a prediction tool derived from an ongoing prospective cohort study in 260 hospitals across England, Scotland, and Wales.

The score was developed from treatment data of 35,463 patients with PCR-confirmed COVID-19 (median age, 73 years; 42% women; overall mortality rate, 32%) ho…

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Thomas Glück, MD

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Editorial BoardsConsilium Infectiorum by InfectoPharm, Infection

Thomas Glück, MD

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Editorial BoardsConsilium Infectiorum by InfectoPharm, Infection

An Easy-to-Use Tool for Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with COVID-19

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