PLoS ONE (Jan 2022)

Brief communication: Chest radiography score in young COVID-19 patients: Does one size fit all?

  • Gioele Castelli,
  • Umberto Semenzato,
  • Sara Lococo,
  • Elisabetta Cocconcelli,
  • Nicol Bernardinello,
  • Giulia Fichera,
  • Chiara Giraudo,
  • Paolo Spagnolo,
  • Annamaria Cattelan,
  • Elisabetta Balestro

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 2

Abstract

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During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, chest X-Ray (CXR) scores are essential to rapidly assess patients’ prognoses. This study evaluates a published CXR score in a different national healthcare system. In our study, this CXR score maintains a prognostic role in predicting length of hospital stay, but not disease severity. However, our results show that the predictive role of CXR score could be influenced by socioeconomic status and healthcare system.