Death risk stratification in elderly patients with covid-19. A comparative cohort study in nursing homes outbreaks

M Bernabeu-Wittel, JE Ternero-Vega… - Archives of gerontology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Elderly people are more severely affected by COVID-19. Nevertheless scarce information
about specific prognostic scores for this population is available. The main objective was to
compare the accuracy of recently developed COVID-19 prognostic scores to that of CURB-
65, Charlson and PROFUND indices in a cohort of 272 elderly patients from four nursing
homes, affected by COVID-19. Accuracy was measured by calibration (calibration curves
and Hosmer-Lemeshov (HL) test), and discriminative power (area under the receiver …