Validation of a risk score to predict patients at risk of critical illness with COVID-19.
(2021) Infectious Diseases — Vol. 53, n° 1, p. 78-80 (2021)
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Castanares Zapatero, Diego 
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- To the Editor, Available data suggest that 15% and 5% of patients with COVID-19 develop severe and critical illness, respectively [1]. Early recognition of patients who will develop critical COVID-19 illness is of great importance because it will led to more aggressive and adapted management which may improve patient’s outcome. An example of work along these lines is a recent report in this journal on the predictive value of National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2 for intensive care unit (ICU) admission of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection [...]
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Yildiz, H., Yombi, J. C., & Castanares Zapatero, D. (2021). Validation of a risk score to predict patients at risk of critical illness with COVID-19. Infectious Diseases, 53(1), 78-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/23744235.2020.1823469 (Original work published 2021)