Clinical prediction models for mortality in patients with covid-19: external validation and individual participant data meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To externally validate various prognostic models and scoring rules for predicting short term mortality in patients admitted to hospital for covid-19.

Design

Two stage individual participant data meta-analysis.

Setting

Secondary and tertiary care.

Participants

46 914 patients across 18 countries, admitted to a hospital with polymerase chain reaction confirmed covid-19 from November 2019 to April 2021.

Data sources

Multiple (clustered) cohorts in Brazil, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Iran, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States previously identified by a living systematic review of covid-19 prediction models published in The BMJ, and through PROS

SUBMITTER: de Jong VMT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9273913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature