In a study published in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine, researchers describe how these models could enable clinicians to better stratify risk in COVID-infected patients to optimize care and resource utilization in hospitals faced with ICU capacity constraints. "Information that can accurately predict severity of the clinical course at the time of hospital admission has been limited," says senior author Rajeev Malhotra, MD, a cardiologist at MGH and investigator in the MGH Cardiovascular Research Center. ‘Ventilation in COVID Estimate (VICE) uncovers factors like diabetes mellitus, oxygen saturation of the blood, and 2 inflammatory markers. Death in COVID Estimate (DICE) factors can predict coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, body mass index, platelet count, and a variety of inflammatory and infectious markers.’