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## Background: The unprecedented covid-19 pandemic has put a serious burden on the healthcare system worldwide. due to varied manifestations of sars-cov-2 infection, many scoring systems, which were earlier used for community acquired pneumonia (cap) are in use to determine the disease severity and the need of icu admissions for proper management. covid-19 is a relatively new disease and the validity of these scoring systems in sars-cov-2 infection is not completely known. this study aimed to validate these scoring systems in cases of covid-19 pneumonia in an indian setup. the study has also tried to find the most accurate indicator of disease severity and 14-day mortality among these scoring systems. ## Materials and methods: This study included 122 sars-cov-2 infected patients at a tertiary hospital in ranchi, jharkhand. the severity of the disease according to icmr protocol for covid-19, the psi/port score, the curb-65 score and the scap score were calculated in all the patients and analysed with the disease outcome, that is, 14-day mortality. ## Results: Scap score, psi/port score and curb-65 criteria, all were good indicators of disease severity and 14-day mortality. however,

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Author

Aditya Anurag; Mukul Preetam

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)