Evaluation and improvement of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) for COVID-19: a multi-hospital study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) is currently recommended in the UK for the risk stratification of COVID-19 patients, but little is known about its ability to detect severe cases. We aimed to evaluate NEWS2 for the prediction of severe COVID-19 outcome and identify and validate a set of blood and physiological parameters routinely collected at hospital admission to improve upon the use of NEWS2 alone for medium-term risk stratification.

Methods

Training cohorts comprised 1276 patients admitted to King's College Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust with COVID-19 disease from 1 March to 30 April 2020. External validation cohorts included 6237 patients from five UK NHS Trusts (Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, University Hospitals Southampton

SUBMITTER: Carr E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7817348 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature