Early warning scores to assess the probability of critical illness in patients with COVID-19.
Lars Ingmar VeldhuisMilan L RidderikhofMichiel SchinkelJoop van den BerghMartijn BeudelTom DormansRenee DoumaNiels Gritters van den OeverLianne de HaanKaren KoopmanMartijn D de KruifPeter NoordzijAuke ReidingaWouter de RuijterSuat SimsekCaroline WyersPrabath Wb NanayakkaraMarkus HollmannPublished in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2021)
In this multicentre study, the best performing models to predict ICU admittance were the NEWS2 and the Quick COVID-19 Severity Index Score, with fair diagnostic performance. However, due to the moderate performance, these models cannot be clinically used to adequately predict the need for ICU admission within 24 hours in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection presenting at the ED.