Evidence-Based Prediction of Covid-19 Severity in Hospitalized Children Publisher Pubmed



Armin S¹ ; Mirkarimi M² ; Pourmoghaddas Z³ ; Tariverdi M⁴ ; Shamsizadeh A⁵ ; Alisamir M² ; Mohammadian M⁴ ; Rahmati MB⁶ ; Rafiei Tabatabaei S¹ ; Mansour Ghanaiee R¹ ; Fahimzad SA¹ ; Yaraghi A¹ ; Hoseinialfatemi SM¹ ; Marhamati N¹ Show All Authors
Source: International journal of clinical practice Published:2022

Abstract

Objective: In this study, by using clinical and paraclinical characteristics, we have aimed to predict the severity of the disease in hospitalized COVID-19 children. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on medical records about epidemiologic data, underlying diseases, symptoms, and laboratory tests from March to October, 2020, on 238 hospitalized confirmed COVID-19 paediatric cases in several children's hospitals of Tehran, Ahwaz, Isfahan, and Bandar Abbas. Results: From 238 patients, 140 (59%) were male and most of them were in the age group of 1 to 5 years (34.6%). Among all hospitalized patients, 38% had an underlying disease and in total, 5% of cases were expired. Conclusion: Determining patient severity is essential for appropriate clinical decision making; our results showed that in hospitalized pediatric patients, by using several variables such as SGOT, CRP, ALC, LDH, WBC, O2sat, and ferritin, we can use clinical and paraclinical characteristics for predicting the severity of COVID-19. Copyright © 2022 Shahnaz Armin et al.