A risk score based on baseline risk factors for predicting mortality in COVID-19 patients

BACKGROUND: To develop a sensitive and clinically applicable risk assessment tool identifying coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with a high risk of mortality at hospital admission. This model would assist frontline clinicians in optimizing medical treatment with limited resources.

METHODS: 6415 patients from seven hospitals in Wuhan city were assigned to the training and testing cohorts. A total of 6351 patients from another three hospitals in Wuhan, 2169 patients from outside of Wuhan, and 553 patients from Milan, Italy were assigned to three independent validation cohorts. A total of 64 candidate clinical variables at hospital admission were analyzed by random forest and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) analyses.

RESULTS: Eight factors, namely, Oxygen saturation, blood Urea nitrogen, Respiratory rate, admission before the date the national Maximum number of daily new cases was reached, Age, Procalcitonin, C-reactive protein (CRP), and absolute Neutrophil counts, were identified as having significant associations with mortality in COVID-19 patients. A composite score based on these eight risk factors, termed the OURMAPCN-score, predicted the risk of mortality among the COVID-19 patients, with a C-statistic of 0.92 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.90-0.93). The hazard ratio for all-cause mortality between patients with OURMAPCN-score >11 compared with those with scores ≤ 11 was 18.18 (95% CI 13.93-23.71; p < .0001). The predictive performance, specificity, and sensitivity of the score were validated in three independent cohorts.

CONCLUSIONS: The OURMAPCN score is a risk assessment tool to determine the mortality rate in COVID-19 patients based on a limited number of baseline parameters. This tool can assist physicians in optimizing the clinical management of COVID-19 patients with limited hospital resources.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Current medical research and opinion - 37(2021), 6 vom: 03. Juni, Seite 917-927

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Ze [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Jianghua [VerfasserIn]
Lei, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Juan-Juan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao-Jing [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Lihua [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ye-Mao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Haitao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ming-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yan-Ci [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Lijun [VerfasserIn]
Song, Xiaohui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xingyuan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Chengzhang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Weifang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Deliang [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Youqin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Mingyu [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Weiming [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Liming [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Bing [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Pengcheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zixiong [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Zhigang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Junhai [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Haofeng [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Xigang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Daihong [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Xiaofeng [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Liang [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Guohua [VerfasserIn]
Azzolini, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Aghemo, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Ciccarelli, Michele [VerfasserIn]
Condorelli, Gianluigi [VerfasserIn]
Stefanini, Giulio G [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Bing-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xiaodong [VerfasserIn]
Xia, Jiahong [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Yufeng [VerfasserIn]
She, Zhi-Gang [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yibin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Li, Hongliang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
In-hospital
Journal Article
Modeling
Mortality
Risk score

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Date Completed 17.06.2021

Date Revised 17.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/03007995.2021.1904862

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322865085