Validation of two severity scores as predictors for outcome in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 2; p. e0247488
• Main Authors: Salbach, Christian, Mueller-Hennessen, Matthias, Biener, Moritz, Stoyanov, Kiril M, Vafaie, Mehrshad, Preusch, Michael R, Kihm, Lars P, Merle, Uta, Schnitzler, Paul, Katus, Hugo A, Giannitsis, Evangelos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 19.02.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biology and Life Sciences; Blood pressure; Cardiology; Classification; Classification systems; Comparative analysis; Complications; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - mortality; Data analysis; Disease; Embolisms; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Hospitals; Humans; Infections; Intensive care; Internal medicine; Laboratories; Male; Medical records; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; Normal distribution; Oxygen; Oxygen content; Oxygen saturation; Physical Sciences; Physicians; Pneumonia; Practice guidelines (Medicine); Predictive Value of Tests; Respiration; Respiratory rate; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; SARS-CoV-2; Saturation; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Severity of Illness Index; Supervision; Variables; Viral diseases; Germany

An established objective and standardized reporting of clinical severity and disease progression in COVID-19 is still not established. We validated and compared the usefulness of two classification systems reported earlier-a severity grading proposed by Siddiqi and a system from the National Austral...