Development and validation of a scoring system to predict mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study in two large hospitals in Ecuador

• Iván Dueñas-Espín ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: igduenase@puce.edu.ec

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-727X

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• María Echeverría-Mora ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: María Echeverría-Mora, Camila Montenegro-Fárez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• Camila Montenegro-Fárez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: María Echeverría-Mora, Camila Montenegro-Fárez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador

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• Manuel Baldeón,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, de la Salud y de la Vida, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Luis Chantong Villacres,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital General Norte de Guayaquil, IESS Ceibos, Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS), Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Hugo Espejo Cárdenas,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-5097

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• Marco Fornasini,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, de la Salud y de la Vida, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Miguel Ochoa Andrade,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital General del Sur de Quito, Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS), Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5505-5285

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• Carlos Solís

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital General Norte de Guayaquil, IESS Ceibos, Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS), Guayaquil, Ecuador

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