QCovid algorithm
Benefits
Predicts how at-risk individuals might be from coronavirus. Used by clinicians to support conversations with patients about personal risk. Combines factors like age, sex, ethnicity, BMI, and health conditions to estimate risk of catching COVID-19 and being hospitalized or dying.
Details
- Tool name
- QCovid algorithm
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Machine Learning
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Machine Learning
- Usecase
- Decision Support
- Origin
- gov.uk
- Owning team
- Department for Health and Social Care and NHS Digital
- Date added
- 1 June 2022
- Scrape date
- Source note
- QCovid team piloted COVID-19 clinical tool to predict individual risk from COVID-19, used for Population Risk Assessment. [Source]