Accuracy of the Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index for predicting short-term mortality among 1307 US academic medical centre inpatients and 427 224 US Medicare patients.
Joseph T KingJames S YoonZachary M BredlJoseph P HabbousheGraham A WalkerChristopher T RentschJanet P TateNitu M KashyapRichard C HintzAneesh P ChopraAmy C JusticePublished in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (2021)
The VACO Index estimates risk of short-term mortality across a wide variety of patients with COVID-19 using data available prior to or at the time of diagnosis. The VACO Index could help inform primary and booster vaccination prioritisation, and indicate who among outpatients testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 should receive greater clinical attention or scarce treatments.
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