This method can only be applied to patients presenting at the ER with respiratory symptoms and has yet to be tested with children. With the validation of a group of 967 patients, patients with a negative RT-PCR test had median score of 4 and patients with a positive RT-PCR test had median score of 11. The algorithm has a AUROC of 0.91 with 96% sensitivity and 95% specificity.

Corona Score

Corona-score algorithm is a point-based algorithm that was developed and validated to evaluate the likelihood of a COVID-19 infection in patients with respiratory symptoms based on information giving by demographic, laboratory, and imaging data. These data include age, sex, CT, CRP, ALC, ANC, LDH, and ferritin.

University of California, Davis

In hospitals, triage teams reduce moral distress for clinicians and legally protect them by deciding 1) which patients should receive allocation (life-sustaining intervention) and 2) whether resources will be withdrawn from one patient and given to another. They must be transparent about their principles and decision-making factors, but the team member identities may be private. 

Triage Teams for Healthcare Systems and COVID-19

Kurstjens, S., van der Horst, A., Herpers, R., Geerits, M. L., Kluiters-de Hingh, Y. M., Göttgens, E., Blaauw, M. T., Thelen, M. M., Elisen, M. M., & Kusters, R. (2020). Rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients at the emergency department using routine testing, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM) (published online ahead of print), 000010151520200593. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2020-0593

Rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients at the emergency department using routine testing

Triage Method Implemented by Hospitals in the Netherlands: Corona-score

As resources become scarce and the triage method is used to maximize the number of surviving patients, decisions on resource allocation result in many ethical dilemmas despite transparency. 

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