Development and validation of a 30-day mortality index based on pre-existing medical administrative data from 13,323 COVID-19 patients: The Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index

• Joseph T. King Jr.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2823-9649

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• James S. Yoon,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Christopher T. Rentsch,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1408-7907

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• Janet P. Tate,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Lesley S. Park,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3848-7753

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• Farah Kidwai-Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Melissa Skanderson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Ronald G. Hauser,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7361-7162

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• Daniel A. Jacobson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennesee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-8251

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• Joseph Erdos,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Kelly Cho,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rachel Ramoni,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• David R. Gagnon,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6367-3179

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• Amy C. Justice

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amy.justice@yale.edu

  Affiliations VA Connecticut Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0139-5502

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