Predicting progression to severe COVID-19 using the PAINT score.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

One of the major challenges in treating patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is predicting the severity of disease. We aimed to develop a new score for predicting progression from mild/moderate to severe COVID-19.

Methods

A total of 239 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from two medical centers in China between February 6 and April 6, 2020 were retrospectively included. The prognostic abilities of variables, including clinical data and laboratory findings from the electronic medical records of each hospital, were analysed using the Cox proportional hazards model and Kaplan-Meier methods. A prognostic score was developed to predict progression from mild/moderate to severe COVID-19.

Results

Among the 239 patients, 216 (90.38%) patients had mild

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9134988 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature