COVID-19 recognition and digital risk stratification

Luke E Hodgson; Todd Leckie; Alexander Hunter; Nicolaas Prinsloo; Richard Venn; Lui Forni

doi:10.7861/fhj.2020-0037

COVID-19 recognition and digital risk stratification

Future Healthc J. 2020 Oct;7(3):e47-e49. doi: 10.7861/fhj.2020-0037.

Authors

Luke E Hodgson¹, Todd Leckie², Alexander Hunter³, Nicolaas Prinsloo², Richard Venn², Lui Forni⁴

Affiliations

¹ Worthing Hospital, Worthing, UK and visiting senior lecturer, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
² Worthing Hospital, Worthing, UK.
³ St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, UK.
⁴ Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford, UK and professor, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Abstract

In the acute hospital setting the COVID-19 pandemic presents some unique challenges to acute patient care. These include accurate recognition of cases, confirmation of both testing requests and results, establishing patient acuity and alerting to deterioration. We report our experience introducing a digital COVID-19 assessment tool with an associated live dashboard at two acute NHS hospitals, enabling accurate hospital-level reporting alongside risk stratification.

Keywords: COVID-19; Digital assessment; coronavirus.