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Utility of a Clinical Scoring System for Point of Care Triaging in COVID-19 Pneumonia

2021-03-02 intensive care and critical care medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundSurges in COVID-19 disease cases can rapidly overwhelm healthcare resources; triaging to appropriate levels of care can assist in resource planning. At the beginning of the pandemic, we developed a simple triage tool, the Temple COVID-19 Pneumonia Triage Tool (TemCOV) based on a combination of clinical and radiographic features that are readily available on presentation to categorize and predict illness severity. MethodsWe prospectively examined 579 sequential cases admitted to Temple...

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