Radiographic Assessment of Lung Edema (RALE) Scores are Highly Reproducible and Prognostic of Clinical Outcomes for Inpatients with COVID-19.
Nameer S Al-YousifSaketram KomanduriHafiz QurashiAnatoliy KorzhukHalimat O LawalNicholas AbourizkCaitlin SchaeferKevin J MitchellCatherine M DietzEllen K HughesClara S BrandtGeorgia M FitzgeraldRobin JoyceAsmaa S ChaudhryDaniel KotokJose D RiveraAndrew I KimShruti ShettigarAllen LavinaChristine E GirardSamantha R GillenwaterAnas HadehWilliam BainFaraaz A ShahMatthew BittnerMichael LuNiall PrendergastJohn EvankovichKonstantin GolubykhNavitha RameshJana J JacobsCathy KessingerBarbara MethéJanet S LeeAlison MorrisBryan J McVerryGeorgios D KitsiosPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2022)
Reproducible assessment of radiographic severity revealed significant associations with clinical and physiologic severity, host-response biomarkers and clinical outcome in COVID-19 pneumonia. Incorporation of radiographic severity assessments may provide prognostic and treatment allocation guidance in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.