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The Covid-19 Assessment For Survival At Admission (Casa) Index: A 12 Months Observational Study, Gianluca Bagnato, Daniela La Rosa, Carmelo Ioppolo, Alberta De Gaetano, Marianna Chiappalone, Natalia Zirilli, Valeria Viapiana, Maria Concetta Tringali, Simona Tomeo, Caterina Oriana Aragona, Francesca Napoli, Sara Lillo, Natasha Irrera, William Neal Roberts, Egidio Imbalzano, Antonio Micari, Elvira Ventura Spagnolo, Giovanni Squadrito, Sebastiano Gangemi, Antonio Giovanni Versace
The Covid-19 Assessment For Survival At Admission (Casa) Index: A 12 Months Observational Study, Gianluca Bagnato, Daniela La Rosa, Carmelo Ioppolo, Alberta De Gaetano, Marianna Chiappalone, Natalia Zirilli, Valeria Viapiana, Maria Concetta Tringali, Simona Tomeo, Caterina Oriana Aragona, Francesca Napoli, Sara Lillo, Natasha Irrera, William Neal Roberts, Egidio Imbalzano, Antonio Micari, Elvira Ventura Spagnolo, Giovanni Squadrito, Sebastiano Gangemi, Antonio Giovanni Versace
Internal Medicine Faculty Publications
Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease with a high rate of progression to critical illness. However, the stratification of patients at risk of mortality is not well defined. In this study, we aimed to define a mortality risk index to allocate patients to the appropriate intensity of care.
Methods: This is a 12 months observational longitudinal study designed to develop and validate a pragmatic mortality risk score to stratify COVID-19 patients aged ≥18 years and admitted to hospital between March 2020 and March 2021. Main outcome was in-hospital mortality.
Results: 244 patients were included in the study (mortality …