Predictors of mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and risk score formulation for prioritizing tertiary care-An experience from South India.
Narendran GopalanSumathi SenthilNarmadha Lakshmi PrabakarThirumaran SenguttuvanAdhin BhaskarMuthukumaran JagannathanRavi SivaramanJayalakshmi RamasamyPonnuraja ChinnaiyanVijayalakshmi ArumugamBanumathy GetrudeGautham SakthivelVignes Anand SrinivasaluDhanalakshmi RajendranArunjith NadukkandiyilVaishnavi RaviSadiqa Nasreen Hifzour RahamaneNirmal Athur ParamasivamTamizhselvan ManoharanMaheshwari TheyagarajanVineet Kumar ChadhaMohan NatrajanBaskaran DhanarajManoj Vasant MurhekarShanthi Malar RamalingamPadmapriyadarsini ChandrasekaranPublished in: PloS one (2022)
The 'OUR ARDs' risk score, derived from easily assessable factors predicting mortality, offered a tangible solution for prioritizing admission to COVID-19 tertiary care centre, that enhanced patient care but without unduly straining the health system.