id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-273283-gb0m6fue Altschul, David J. A novel severity score to predict inpatient mortality in COVID-19 patients 2020-10-07 .txt text/plain 3372 169 49 While the SOFA score is also predictive of mortality for COVID-19, it does not address the additional thrombotic mitigators of severe illness 11 www.nature.com/scientificreports/ development of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and now being used to help guide the use of anticoagulation for patients with COVID-19 [12] [13] [14] . This study is an observational cohort study validating a novel, simple COVID-19 in-hospital mortality score to predict inpatient mortality risk in 4711 patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection using a combination of presentation vital signs, and basic admission laboratory values. A ROC curve analysis was performed in the derivation cohort (Fig. 1) , the novel COVID-19 severity score achieved an AUC of 0.824 (95% CI 0.814-0.851) indicating a good discrimination for patients with higher risk www.nature.com/scientificreports/ www.nature.com/scientificreports/ of in-hospital mortality. ./cache/cord-273283-gb0m6fue.txt ./txt/cord-273283-gb0m6fue.txt