Predicting Risk of Hospital Admission in Patients With Suspected COVID-19 in a Community Setting: Protocol for Development and Validation of a Multivariate Risk Prediction Tool

Ana Belen Espinosa-Gonzalez   ¹ , PhD ;   Ana Luisa Neves   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Francesca Fiorentino   ¹ , PhD ;   Denys Prociuk   ¹ ;   Laiba Husain   ⁴ , MPH ;   Sonny Christian Ramtale   ¹ , MSc ;   Emma Mi   ¹ ;   Ella Mi   ¹ ;   Jack Macartney   ⁴ ;   Sneha N Anand   ⁴ , PhD ;   Julian Sherlock   ⁴ , BA ;   Kavitha Saravanakumar   ⁵ ;   Erik Mayer   ¹ , MD ;   Simon de Lusignan   ⁴ , MD ;   Trisha Greenhalgh   ⁴ , MD ;   Brendan C Delaney   ¹ , MD

¹ Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

² Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

³ Center for Health Technology and Services Research / Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision (CINTESIS/MEDCIDS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

⁴ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁵ Whole Systems Integrated Care, North West London Clinical Commissioning Group, London, United Kingdom