Open AccessUsefulness of the CONUT index upon hospital admission as a potential prognostic indicator of COVID-19 health outcomes
Author(s) -
Adrián K. Bengelloun,
Guillermo Ortega,
Julio Ancochea,
Áncor Sanz-García,
Diego Aníbal Rodríguez-Serrano,
Guillermo Fernández-Jiménez,
Rosa Girón,
E Avalos,
Joan B. Soriano,
J. I. de Ulíbarri
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chinese medical journal/chinese medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2542-5641
pISSN - 0366-6999
DOI - 10.1097/cm9.0000000000001798
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , index (typography) , emergency medicine , pediatrics , virology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , world wide web , computer science
In-hospital mortality in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is high. Simple prognostic indices are needed to identify patients at high-risk of COVID-19 health outcomes. We aimed to determine the usefulness of the CONtrolling NUTritional status (CONUT) index as a potential prognostic indicator of mortality in COVID-19 patients upon hospital admission.