RT Generic
T1 A quick prediction tool for unfavourable outcome in COVID-19 inpatients: Development and internal validation.
A1 Salto-Alejandre, Sonsoles
A1 Roca-Oporto, Cristina
A1 Martin-Gutierrez, Guillermo
A1 Aviles, Maria Dolores
A1 Gomez-Gonzalez, Carmen
A1 Navarro-Amuedo, Maria Dolores
A1 Praena-Segovia, Julia
A1 Molina, Jose
A1 Paniagua-Garcia, Maria
A1 Garcia-Delgado, Horacio
A1 Dominguez-Petit, Antonio
A1 Pachon, Jeronimo
A1 Cisneros, Jose Miguel
K1 COVID-19
K1 Internal validation
K1 Quick prediction tool
K1 SARS-CoV-2
K1 Unfavourable outcome
AB As COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate, hospitals around the world confront with the need to attend an increasing number of patients. Therefore, we read with much interest the recent study published in the Journal of Infection by Galloway JB et al., reinforcing the importance of stratifying patients to ease their management and their incorporation to potential clinical trials1. For this purpose, these authors developed a valuable and complex risk score based on twelve parameters, including, among others, age, gender, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic lung disease. Since knowing the risk of clinical deterioration can assist medical decisions about appropriate level of care, predictive models for COVID-19 are becoming notably frequent. However, many of them are notably biased, non-validated, or present a construction lacking in clarity2,3. Moreover, they often conclude that male older patients with comorbidities are more likely to experience unfavourable outcomes4,5, even when such determinants are already well-known predictors of worse result in community-acquired pneumonia6. Although the medical assessment of patients must always address demographics and underlying comorbidities, it is known that the evaluation of disease severity and prognosis should not only depend on the above-mentioned risk markers.
PB Elsevier Ltd
YR 2020
FD 2020-09-24
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/16336
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/16336
LA en
NO Salto-Alejandre S, Roca-Oporto C, Martín-Gutiérrez G, Avilés MD, Gómez-González C, Navarro-Amuedo MD, et al. A quick prediction tool for unfavourable outcome in COVID-19 inpatients: Development and internal validation. J Infect. 2021 Feb;82(2):e11-e15.
DS RISalud
RD Apr 10, 2025