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. 2022 Jul 12;378:e069881. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069881

Table 2.

Characteristics of the included external validation cohorts and clusters

Dataset, cluster No of patients Start recruitment date End recruitment date Total No (%) of deaths Mean (SD) age; (IQR) (years) No (%) male
Karolinska Institute, Sweden 1670 27 Feb 2020 1 Sep 2020 193 (11.56) 57.30 (18.70); (43-71) 983 (58.90)
Albert Einstein Hospital, Brazil 453 27 Feb 2020 25 Jun 2020 17 (3.75) 56.44 (14.92); (46-68.50) 295 (65.05)
Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic 213 3 Mar 2020 12 Oct 2020 42 (20)* 68.56 (16.56); (58-80) 105 (49)
University College London, UK 411 1 Feb 2020 30 Apr 2020 115 (28) 66 (53-79)† 252 (61.31)
General Directorate of Epidemiology, Mexico:
 All data, from this source 28 176 1 Mar 2020 16 Apr 2020 12 990 (46.10) 58.57 (15.93); (48-70) 17 019 (60.40)
 Development cohort excluded 25 056 11 556 (46.12) 59.08 (15.94); (49-70) 15 035 (60.01)
Tongji Hospital,39 China 332 10 Jan 2020 18 Feb 2020 155 (46.69) 58.98 (16.65); (46-70) 198 (59.64)
CAPACITY-COVID:
 Belgium 221 12 Feb 2020 14 Oct 2020 51 (23.08)* 68.14 (15.72); (57-81) 137 (61.99)
 Egypt 45 12 Apr 2020 12 Aug 2020 9 (20) 60.89 (14.37); (50-73) 21 (46.67)
 France 46 13 Feb 2020 18 Dec 2020 3 (6.52)* 67.96 (12.52); (62-77) 34 (73.91)
 Iran 90 10 Feb 2020 5 May 2020 13 (14.44)* 63.19 (15.39); (53.25-73) 59 (65.56)
 Israel 25 10 Apr 2020 9 Aug 2020 2 (8) 50.36 (20.15); (31-67) 14 (56)
 Italy 106 6 Feb 2020 4 May 2020 22 (20.75) 70.72 (11.63); (62.25-78.75) 72 (67.92)
 Netherlands 5100 22 Nov 2019 30 Jul 2020 1003 (19.67)* 66.37 (14.15); (57-76) 3172 (62.20)
 Portugal 44 25 Mar 2020 19 Aug 2020 10 (22.73)* 71.43 (13.32); (63.75-82) 30 (61.18)
 Russia 278 22 Apr 2020 4 Jun 2020 19 (6.83) 60.09 (15.49); (50.25-71) 137 (49.28)
 Saudi Arabia 389 29 Feb 2020 24 Sep 2020 57 (14.65)* 50.56 (16.79); (38-62) 270 (69.41)
 Spain 47 5 Mar 2020 20 Apr 2020 10 (21.28)* 70.98 (16.68); (55-83.75) 28 (59.57)
Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, Netherlands 383 9 Mar 2020 29 Dec 2020 154 (40.21) 70.21 (14.79); (61-81) 226 (59.01)
Iowa (USA), UnityPoint Hospitals:
 Hospital 1 288 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 14 (4.86) 46.49 (19.29); (32-59) 147 (51.04)
 Hospital 2 929 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 67 (7.21) 50.12 (22.54); (33-68) 454 (48.87)
 Hospital 3 95 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 6 (6.32) 45.31 (20.54); (27-59) 45 (47.37)
 Hospital 4 66 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 6 (9.09) 48.77 (21.26); (31-65) 39 (59.09)
 Hospital 5 511 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 22 (4.31) 51.03 (20.63); (35-67) 240 (46.97)
 Hospital 6 393 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 22 (5.60) 45.35 (19.02); 30-60 176 (44.78)
 Hospital 7 295 3 Mar 2020 31 Jul 2020 18 (6.10) 47.60 (20.10); 32-63 162 (54.92)
Leicester covTrack, UK 3908 Jan 2020 Apr 2021 110 (28.22) 63.29 (19.19); (50-79) 2063 (52.79)
King’s College Hospital, UK 2400 28 Feb 2020 28 Mar 2021 295 (12.29) 59.76 (20.58); (47-76) 1314 (54.75)

SD=standard deviation; IQR=interquartile range.

*

Observed number of deaths before multiple imputation.

Median (IQR).