New online tool ‘can identify Covid patients at highest risk of deterioration’
An online tool can identify Covid-19 patients who are at highest risk of deterioration (Peter Byrne/PA)
An online tool that can identify Covid-19 patients who are at highest risk of deterioration is being made freely available to NHS doctors from Friday.
The new risk-stratification tool, developed by researchers from the UK Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium (known as ISARIC4C), assesses data collected from hospital patients along with some standard laboratory tests.
It then calculates a percentage risk of deterioration based on the information, which is known as the 4C Deterioration Score.