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cord-300013-6m1f4q5r	Brahier, Thomas	Lung ultrasonography for risk stratification in patients with COVID-19: a prospective observational cohort study	2020-09-17		.txt	text/plain	3247	220	54	This study describes and compares LUS characteristics between patients with different clinical outcomes METHODS: Prospective observational study of PCR-confirmed COVID-19 adults with symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection in the emergency department (ED) of Lausanne University Hospital. We describe and compare early LUS findings (acquired within 24hours of presentation to the ED) between patient groups based on their outcome at 7 days after inclusion: 1) outpatients, 2) hospitalised and 3) intubated/death. Median normalized LUS score had a good level of discrimination between outpatients and others with area under the ROC of 0.80 (95% CI 0.68-0.92) CONCLUSIONS: Systematic LUS has potential as a reliable, cheap and easy-to-use triage tool for the early risk stratification in COVID-19 patients presenting in EDs Despite the potential of LUS as a cheap, portable and accessible point-of-care triage tool in acute respiratory disease (especially in low resource settings), a multinational consensus recently stated that the lack of studies limited specific recommendations for the management of COVID-19 patients (27) .	./cache/cord-300013-6m1f4q5r.txt	./txt/cord-300013-6m1f4q5r.txt