ArticleInternational journal of critical illness and injury science
Utility of early warning scores to predict mortality in COVID-19 patients: A retrospective observational study.
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- Modified Early Warning Score: Clinical Deterioration of Mexican Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 and Chronic Disease.Healthcare (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
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- COVID-19: Association of risk classification with the Modified Early Warning Score and hospital outcomes.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2023Article
- Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Lymphocyte/Monocyte Ratio (LMR) - Risk of Death Inflammatory Biomarkers in Patients with COVID-19.Journal of inflammation research · 2023Article
- [COVID-19 mortality prediction. Comparison between two scales].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2022Article
- Neurological Prognostic Factors in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) has evolved as a global pandemic. The patients with COVID-19 infection can present as mild, moderate, and severe disease forms. The reported mortality of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infection is around 6.6%, which is lower than that of SARS-CoV and (middle east respiratory syndrome CoV). However, the fatality rate of COVID-19 infection is higher in the geriatric age group and in patients with multiple co-morbidities. The study aimed to evaluate the utility of early warning scores (EWS) to predict mortality in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 infection.
methodsThis retrospective study was carried out in a tertiary care institute of Uttarakhand. Demographic and clinical data of the admitted patients with moderate-to-severe COVID-19 infection were collected from the hospital record section and utilized to calculate the EWS-National early warning score (NEWS), modified early warning score (MEWS), Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS), rapid emergency medicine score (REMS), and worthing physiological scoring system (WPS).
resultsThe area under the curve for NEWS, MEWS, RAPS, REMS, and WPS was 0.813 (95% confidence interval [CI]; 0.769-0.858), 0.770 (95% CI; 0.717-0.822), 0.755 (95% CI; 0.705-0.805), 0.892 (95% CI; 0.859-0.924), and 0.892 (95% CI; 0.86-0.924), respectively.
conclusionThe EWS at triage can be used for early assessment of severity as well as predict mortality in patients with COVID-19 patients.
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