Ferritin, blood urea nitrogen, and high chest CT score determines ICU admission in COVID-19 positive UAE patients: A single center retrospective study

• Riyad Bendardaf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Riyad Bendardaf, Poorna Manasa Bhamidimarri

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

  * E-mail: Riyad.Bendardf@uhs.ae (RB); rhamoudi@sharjah.ac.ae (RH)

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Poorna Manasa Bhamidimarri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Riyad Bendardaf, Poorna Manasa Bhamidimarri

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Research Academy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Zainab Al-Abadla,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Dima Zein,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Noura Alkhayal,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Ramy Refaat Georgy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Medical Diagnostic Imaging, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Feda Al Ali,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Alaa Elkhider,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Sadeq Qadri,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Rifat Hamoudi ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Riyad.Bendardf@uhs.ae (RB); rhamoudi@sharjah.ac.ae (RH)

  Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1402-0868

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• Salah Abusnana

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospital Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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