Risk Score for Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in COVID-19 (RIM Score)

A multicenter retrospective cohort study including 1955 consecutive patients admitted to HM Hospitales (Spain) between March and June 2020 developed and validated a prognostic model for in-hospital mortality due to COVID-19. Patients were randomly divided into training (n = 1310) and validation (n =...

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Autores: López-Escobar, Alejandro, Madurga, Rodrigo, Castellano, José María, Velázquez, Sara, Suárez del Villar, Rafael, Menéndez, Justo, Peixoto, Alejandro, Jimeno, Sara, Ventura, Paula Sol, Ruiz de Aguiar, Santiago
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)
Repositorio:Depósito Digital e-UCJC
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ucjc.edu:20.500.12020/1933
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12020/1933
https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11040596
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Biomédicas
Ciencias de la Naturaleza
COVID-19
Mortality prediction
RIM Score
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio
Neutrophil-to-platelet ratio
Hemogram-derived ratios
Risk stratification
Hospital mortality
3205 Medicina Interna
3209 Farmacología
3210 Medicina Preventiva
1209 Estadística
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Sumario:A multicenter retrospective cohort study including 1955 consecutive patients admitted to HM Hospitales (Spain) between March and June 2020 developed and validated a prognostic model for in-hospital mortality due to COVID-19. Patients were randomly divided into training (n = 1310) and validation (n = 645) cohorts. Logistic regression models were constructed using routinely available variables at admission (age, sex, oxygen saturation, C-reactive protein, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), neutrophil-to-platelet ratio (NPR)) and incorporating the rate of change of hemogram-derived ratios during the first week (VNLR and VNPR). The models demonstrated high discriminative capacity with AUC values ranging from 0.853 to 0.861 in baseline validation models and up to 0.896 when including velocity parameters. Calibration curves and decision curve analysis confirmed robustness. The resulting RIM Score is a simple, reproducible and widely accessible tool for early risk stratification of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.