Development and validation of a simple risk scoring system for a COVID-19 diagnostic prediction model
Özge AYDIN GÜÇLÜ, Ahmet URSAVAŞ, Gökhan OCAKOĞLU, Nilüfer Aylin ACET ÖZTÜRK, Dilara ÖMER TOPÇU, Orkun Eray TERZİ, Uğur ÖNAL, Aslı GÖREK DİLEKTAŞLI, İmran SAĞLIK, Funda COŞKUN, Dane EDİGER, Esra UZASLAN, Halis AKALIN, Mehmet KARADAĞ · 2023
Read Development and validation of a simple risk scoring system for a COVID-19 diagnostic prediction model by Özge AYDIN GÜÇLÜ, Ahmet URSAVAŞ, Gökhan OCAKOĞLU, Nilüfer Aylin ACET ÖZTÜRK, Dilara ÖMER TOPÇU, Orkun Eray TERZİ, Uğur ÖNAL, Aslı GÖREK DİLEKTAŞLI, İmran SAĞLIK, Funda COŞKUN, Dane EDİGER, Esra UZASLAN, Halis AKALIN, Mehmet KARADAĞ (2023) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11390080.txt.
Description
Özge Aydın Güçlü and co-authors build a pocket scoring system to guess which emergency patients actually have COVID-19. When tests are scarce, a quick score helps decide who to swab first. The team reviewed 1,187 people who came to a pandemic clinic in Turkey between April 2020 and March 2021, splitting them into groups to build and then check the score.
Five admission features carried the signal. A typical viral pattern on chest imaging was worth five points and breathlessness two, while cough, fatigue, and muscle pain earned one each. Imaging and breathlessness were by far the strongest predictors. The finished score caught about seventy-one percent of true cases in validation, offering a simple triage aid.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Özge AYDIN GÜÇLÜ, Ahmet URSAVAŞ, Gökhan OCAKOĞLU, Nilüfer Aylin ACET ÖZTÜRK, Dilara ÖMER TOPÇU, Orkun Eray TERZİ, Uğur ÖNAL, Aslı GÖREK DİLEKTAŞLI, İmran SAĞLIK, Funda COŞKUN, Dane EDİGER, Esra UZASLAN, Halis AKALIN, Mehmet KARADAĞ |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |