Claudia Nau, Rebecca K Butler, Cheng-Wei Huang, Vang Kou Khang, Aiyu Chen, Beth Creekmur, Benjamin Broder, Christopher Subject, Adam L Sharp, Luis M Moreta-Sainz, Joon S Park, Akshay J Manek, Robert M Cooper, Sergio M Mendoza, Gang Luo, Michael K Gould
OBJECTIVES: To develop a COVID-19-specific deterioration index for hospitalized patients: the COVID Hospitalized Patient Deterioration Index (COVID-HDI). This index builds on the proprietary Epic Deterioration Index, which was not developed for predicting respiratory deterioration events among patients with COVID-19. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective observational cohort was used to develop and validate the COVID-HDI model to predict respiratory deterioration or death among hospitalized patients with COVID-19...
December 1, 2023: American Journal of Managed Care