Mortality predictions of CURB-65, GPS and CALL scores in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Introduction: The Coronavirus Disease-2019(COVID-19) pandemic continues to upset the whole world with mortality. While CURB-65 (Confusion-Urea-Respiratory Rate-Blood Pressure- age ≥65 years) and GPS (The Glasgow Prognostic Score) are defined prognostic scores for pneumonia and malignancies, the CALL (Comorbidities, Age, Lymphocyte count, LDH) score is defined for COVID-19. Objective: We aimed to compare these scores in predicting mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Methods: The data of 408 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 were retrospectively recorded. Demographic, clinical, laboratory data, also CURB-65, GPS and CALL scores were compared between survivors(n:358) and non-survivors(n:50). Receiver operating characteristic(ROC) analysis was used to predict the mortality abilities of scores. Results: Mean age, male gender, smoker, dyspnea from symptoms, presence of any comorbidity, COPD and carcinoma were found to be significantly higher at non-survivor group(all p Conclusions: CURB-65 score is a simple and feasible score for predicting mortality in COVID-19 and may be routinely used in all patients hospitalized with COVID-19.