COVID-19 Inmate Risk Appraisal (CIRA): development and validation of a screening tool to assess COVID-19 vulnerability in prisons

CONCLUSIONS: The CIRA scores have a high discriminative ability and will be important in custodial settings to support decisions and prioritise actions using a standardised valid assessment method. However, as knowledge on risk factors for COVID-19 mortality is still limited, the CIRA may be considered preliminary. Underlying data will be updated regularly on the website (http://www.prison-research.com), where the CIRA algorithm is freely available.PMID:33580705 | DOI:10.4414/smw.2021.20471

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - February 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Leonel Cunha Gon çalves St éphanie Baggio Michael Weber Laurent G étaz Hans Wolff Jay Singh Andreas Naegeli Astrid Rossegger J érôme Endrass Source Type: research