• Rev Invest Clin · Oct 2020

    Development of Simple and Sensitive Score to Assess the Risk of Pneumonia in COVID-19 Patients.

    • Macarena Hormanstorfer, Martin A Ragusa, Lucia Poggio, Jorge Moreira-Facundo, Zulma Orellana-Villa, Florencia A Bobrowski, Joaquin Martinez-Serventi, Santiago N Piombi Adanza, Jose A Enrique Barletta, Alicia Sisto, Hugo Delle-Piane, Juan M Carrillo, Jose L Presas, and Francisco Paulin.
    • Division of Internal Medicine, Hospital Juan A. Fernández, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    • Rev Invest Clin. 2020 Oct 19; 73 (1): 052-058.

    BackgroundSevere pneumonia is the most common cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death due to novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) respiratory disease (COVID-19). Due to its rapid outbreak, units for the evaluation of febrile patients in the pre-hospital setting were created.ObjectiveThe objective of the study was to develop a sensitive and simple tool to assess the risk of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients and thus select which patients would require a chest imaging study.Materials And MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study in a cohort of individuals with suspected COVID-19 evaluated in a public academic healthcare center in Buenos Aires city. All adult patients with positive RT-PCR assay for SARS-COV2 between April 24 and May 19 of 2020 were included in the study. Pneumonia was defined as the presence of compatible signs and symptoms with imaging confirmation. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression was performed. A risk indicator score was developed.ResultsOne hundred and forty-eight patients were included, 71 (48%) received the diagnosis of pneumonia. The final clinical model included four variables: age >- 40 years, cough, absence of sore throat, and respiratory rate >- 22. To create the score, we assigned values to the variables according to their ORs: 2 points for respiratory rate >- 22 and 1 point to the other variables. The AUC of the ROC curve was 0.80 (CI 95% 0.73-0.86). A cutoff value of 2 showed a sensitivity of 95.7% and a specificity of 43.24%.ConclusionThis sensible score may improve the risk stratification of COVID-19 patients in the pre-hospital setting.

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