Risk of progression of severe COVID-19 through call scale in a public hospital in northern Peru

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the diagnostic validity of the CALL score as a predictor of mortality in patients with severe COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit of the Trujillo Regional Teaching Hospital from April 2020 to July 2021. Material and methods: An analytical, retrospective study was carried out, in which 177 patients with severe COVID-19 admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Regional Teaching Hospital of Trujillo were included, according to selection criteria, the CALL score was calculated for each one and was associated with the mortality found;applying the statistical chi 2 test;Subsequently, a multivariate regression analysis was performed to identify risk factors associated with mortality. In turn, the AUROC (area under the ROC curve) was used to establish the predictive performance of the CALL score.