Performance of point-of-care severity scores to predict prognosis in patients admitted through the emergency department with COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying COVID-19 patients at the highest risk of poor outcomes is critical in emergency department (ED) presentation. Sepsis risk stratification scores can be calculated quickly for COVID-19 patients but have not been evaluated in a large cohort.

Objective

To determine whether well-known risk scores can predict poor outcomes among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Designs, settings, and participants

A retrospective cohort study of adults presenting with COVID-19 to 156 Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare EDs, March 2, 2020, to February 11, 2021.

Intervention

Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA), Shock Index, National Early Warning System-2 (NEWS2), and quick COVID-19 Severity Index (qCSI) at presentation.

Main outcome a

SUBMITTER: Prasad PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11344580 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature