Prognostic models for COVID-19 needed updating to warrant transportability over time and space.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supporting decisions for patients who present to the emergency department (ED) with COVID-19 requires accurate prognostication. We aimed to evaluate prognostic models for predicting outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19, in different locations and across time.

Methods

We included patients who presented to the ED with suspected COVID-19 and were admitted to 12 hospitals in the New York City (NYC) area and 4 large Dutch hospitals. We used second-wave patients who presented between September and December 2020 (2137 and 3252 in NYC and the Netherlands, respectively) to evaluate models that were developed on first-wave patients who presented between March and August 2020 (12,163 and 5831). We evaluated two prognostic models for in-hospital death: The Northwel

SUBMITTER: van Klaveren D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9686462 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature