New Scoring System for Predicting Mortality in Patients with COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We aimed to develop a novel mortality scoring system for inpatients with COVID-19 based on simple demographic factors and laboratory findings.

Materials and methods

We reviewed and analyzed data from patients who were admitted and diagnosed with COVID-19 at 10 hospitals in Daegu, South Korea, between January and July 2020. We randomized and assigned patients to the development and validation groups at a 70% to 30% ratio. Each point scored for selected risk factors helped build a new mortality scoring system using Cox regression analysis. We evaluated the accuracy of the new scoring system in the development and validation groups using the area under the curve.

Results

The development group included 1232 patients, whereas the validation group included 528 patie

SUBMITTER: Bae S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8382723 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature