Stratifying Deterioration Risk by Acuity at Admission Offers Triage Insights for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Triaging patients at admission to determine subsequent deterioration risk can be difficult. This is especially true of coronavirus disease 2019 patients, some of whom experience significant physiologic deterioration due to dysregulated immune response following admission. A well-established acuity measure, the Rothman Index, is evaluated for stratification of patients at admission into high or low risk of subsequent deterioration.

Design

Multicenter retrospective study.

Setting

One academic medical center in Connecticut, and three community hospitals in Connecticut and Maryland.

Patients

Three thousand four hundred ninety-nine coronavirus disease 2019 and 14,658 noncoronavirus disease 2019 adult patients admitted to a medical service between January

SUBMITTER: Beals J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8084057 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature