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cord-348459-v3e1zqpa	Sung, J.	Development and Validation of a Simple Risk Score for Diagnosing COVID-19 in the Emergency Room	2020-08-14		.txt	text/plain	2556	153	51	A risk prediction score for COVID-19 can be used as a supplemental tool to assist clinical decision to triage, test, and quarantine patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency room. At present, no validated risk score or stratification system is readily available to aid the clinical decisionmaking process of hospital-based staff in determining when testing for COVID-19 is appropriate [3] . In this retrospective study, we reviewed the records of patients presenting to an emergency department in an acute care hospital in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 and admitted. Patients were included in the study if they presented to the emergency room and were admitted to the hospital with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (cases) or tested negative for COVID-19 within 24 hours of hospital admission (controls). The risk score system achieved AUROC of 0.83 in validation, and can be used as a supplemental tool to assist clinical decision in the triage, quarantine, and testing of patients admitted to the hospital with suspicion of COVID-19 infection.	./cache/cord-348459-v3e1zqpa.txt	./txt/cord-348459-v3e1zqpa.txt