ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021
Early Warning Scores in Patients with Suspected COVID-19 Infection in Emergency Departments.
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- The Prognostic Accuracy of National Early Warning Score 2 on Predicting Clinical Deterioration for Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Evaluating the predictive performance of PIRO score against six clinical prediction scores for COVID-19 outcomes in the emergency department.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prognostic Value of the Brixia Radiological Score in COVID-19 Patients: A Retrospective Study from Romania.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Prognostic Value of the Lactate/Albumin Ratio in Sepsis-Related Mortality: An Exploratory Study in a Tertiary Care Center with Limited Resources in Western Mexico.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Reevaluation of prognostic and severity indicators for COVID-19 patients in the emergency department.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- Predicting Mortality for COVID-19 Patients Admitted to an Emergency Department Using Early Warning Scores in Poland.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prognostic accuracy of early warning scores for predicting serious illness and in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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- The Predictive Value of Risk Factors and Prognostic Scores in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The utility of the Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) compared with three other early warning scores in predicting in-hospital mortality among COVID-19 patients in the emergency department: a multicenter validation study.BMC emergency medicine · 2023Article
- The accuracy of the National Early Warning Score 2 in predicting early death in prehospital and emergency department settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Article
- Multicenter validation of Early Warning Scores for detection of clinical deterioration in COVID-19 hospitalized patients.Medicina intensiva · 2023Article
- Comparison of Pneumonia Severity Indices, qCSI, 4C-Mortality Score and qSOFA in Predicting Mortality in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Early warning scores (EWSs) help prevent and recognize and thereby act as the first signs of clinical and physiological deterioration. The objective of this study is to evaluate different EWSs (National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2), quick sequential organ failure assessment score (qSOFA), Modified Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (MREMS) and Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS)) to predict mortality within the first 48 h in patients suspected to have Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We conducted a retrospective observational study in patients over 18 years of age who were treated by the advanced life support units and transferred to the emergency departments between March and July of 2020. Each patient was followed for two days registering their final diagnosis and mortality data. A total of 663 patients were included in our study. Early mortality within the first 48 h affected 53 patients (8.3%). The scale with the best capacity to predict early mortality was the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2), with an area under the curve of 0.825 (95% CI: 0.75-0.89). The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positive patients presented an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.804 (95% CI: 0.71-0.89), and the negative ones with an AUC of 0.863 (95% CI: 0.76-0.95). Among the EWSs, NEWS2 presented the best predictive power, even when it was separately applied to patients who tested positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2.
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