Development and validation of a model to predict ceiling of care in COVID-19 hospitalized patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Therapeutic ceiling of care is the maximum level of care deemed appropiate to offer to a patient based on their clinical profile and therefore their potential to derive benefit, within the context of the availability of resources. To our knowledge, there are no models to predict ceiling of care decisions in COVID-19 patients or other acute illnesses. We aimed to develop and validate a clinical prediction model to predict ceiling of care decisions using information readily available at the point of hospital admission.

Methods

We studied a cohort of adult COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized in 5 centres of Catalonia between 2020 and 2021. All patients had microbiologically proven SARS-CoV-2 infection at the time of hospitalization. Their therapeutic ceiling of c

SUBMITTER: Pallares N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11250965 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature