Covid patients who are at the highest risk of 'deterioration' can be spotted in advance by an online tool that has been made freely available to NHS doctors today.
The new program could help to triage those most likely to suffer worsening condition from the virus by assessing patient data collected from hospitals and laboratory tests.
Built by experts from the government-run UK Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium (known as ISARIC4C), the tool calculates a percentage risk of deterioration, known as the 4C Deterioration Score.
It comes after the scientists' previous work - the 4C Mortality Score - which predicts the percentage risk of death from Covid after hospital admission.