Publications by authors named "Antonio Lalueza-Blanco"

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  • New variants of SARS-CoV-2, changes in public health measures, and decreased immunity in high-risk groups are leading to predictions of increased hospitalizations and intensive care admissions, highlighting a need for effective Early Warning Scores (EWSs) to predict patient complications within 24-48 hours.* -
  • The developed COVID-19 Early Warning Score (COEWS) relies on easily accessible laboratory parameters, distinguishing it from existing models like NEWS2, and assesses risk in both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients.* -
  • The COEWS model incorporates key lab results, transforming predictive coefficients into individual scores that help identify patients at risk of mechanical ventilation or death; its predictive performance shows promising results with a discrimination score of
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  • New SARS-CoV-2 variants, breakthrough infections, waning immunity, and low vaccination rates are causing increased hospitalizations and deaths, highlighting the need for better resource allocation tools in hospitals, especially in resource-limited areas.
  • The CODOP tool, developed using machine learning, predicts the clinical outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients by analyzing 12 clinical parameters, demonstrating high accuracy levels (AUROC: 0.90-0.96) before clinical resolution.
  • CODOP's effectiveness is consistent across different virus variants and vaccination statuses, and it includes online calculators for efficient patient triage, validated through extensive testing in Latin America.
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(1) Background: This work aims to analyze clinical outcomes according to ethnic groups in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Spain. (2) Methods: This nationwide, retrospective, multicenter, observational study analyzed hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 in 150 Spanish hospitals (SEMI-COVID-19 Registry) from 1 March 2020 to 31 December 2021. Clinical outcomes were assessed according to ethnicity (Latin Americans, Sub-Saharan Africans, Asians, North Africans, Europeans).

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