WHO Ordinal Scale and Inflammation Risk Categories in COVID-19. Comparative Study of the Severity Scales

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BACKGROUND: The WHO ordinal severity scale has been used to predict mortality and guide trials in COVID-19. However, it has its limitations.

OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to compare three classificatory and predictive models: the WHO ordinal severity scale, the model based on inflammation grades, and the hybrid model.

DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study with patient data collected and followed up from March 1, 2020, to May 1, 2021, from the nationwide SEMI-COVID-19 Registry. The primary study outcome was in-hospital mortality. As this was a hospital-based study, the patients included corresponded to categories 3 to 7 of the WHO ordinal scale. Categories 6 and 7 were grouped in the same category.

KEY RESULTS: A total of 17,225 patients were included in the study. Patients classified as high risk in each of the WHO categories according to the degree of inflammation were as follows: 63.8% vs. 79.9% vs. 90.2% vs. 95.1% (p<0.001). In-hospital mortality for WHO ordinal scale categories 3 to 6/7 was as follows: 0.8% vs. 24.3% vs. 45.3% vs. 34% (p<0.001). In-hospital mortality for the combined categories of ordinal scale 3a to 5b was as follows: 0.4% vs. 1.1% vs. 11.2% vs. 27.5% vs. 35.5% vs. 41.1% (p<0.001). The predictive regression model for in-hospital mortality with our proposed combined ordinal scale reached an AUC=0.871, superior to the two models separately.

CONCLUSIONS: The present study proposes a new severity grading scale for COVID-19 hospitalized patients. In our opinion, it is the most informative, representative, and predictive scale in COVID-19 patients to date.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Journal of general internal medicine - 37(2022), 8 vom: 08. Juni, Seite 1980-1987

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rubio-Rivas, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Mora-Luján, José María [VerfasserIn]
Formiga, Francesc [VerfasserIn]
Arévalo-Cañas, Coral [VerfasserIn]
Lebrón Ramos, Juan Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Villalba García, María Victoria [VerfasserIn]
Fonseca Aizpuru, Eva Mª [VerfasserIn]
Díez-Manglano, Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Arnalich Fernández, Francisco [VerfasserIn]
Romero Cabrera, Juan Luis [VerfasserIn]
García García, Gema María [VerfasserIn]
Pesqueira Fontan, Paula M [VerfasserIn]
Vargas Núñez, Juan Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Freire Castro, Santiago Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Loureiro Amigo, José [VerfasserIn]
Pascual Pérez, Maria de Los Reyes [VerfasserIn]
Alcalá Pedrajas, José N [VerfasserIn]
Encinas-Sánchez, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Mella Pérez, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Ena, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Gracia Gutiérrez, Anyuli [VerfasserIn]
Esteban Giner, María José [VerfasserIn]
Varona, José F [VerfasserIn]
Millán Núñez-Cortés, Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Casas-Rojo, José-Manuel [VerfasserIn]
SEMI-COVID-19 Network [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Inflammation
Journal Article
Prognosis
WHO ordinal scale

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Date Completed 16.06.2022

Date Revised 08.08.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11606-022-07511-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339263008