DERIVATION AND VALIDATION OF A CLINICAL SCORE TO PREDICT DEATH AMONG NON-PALLIATIVE COVID-19 PATIENTS PRESENTING TO EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS: THE CCEDRRN COVID MORTALITY SCORE

ABSTRACT Background Predicting mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) using information available when patients present to the Emergency Department (ED) can inform goals-of-care decisions and assist with ethical allocation of critical care resources. Methods We conducted an observational study to develop and validate a clinical score to predict ED and in-hospital mortality among consecutive non-palliative COVID-19 patients. We …