OBJECTIVE To review and critically appraise published and preprint reports of prediction models for diagnosing coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in patients with suspected infection, for prognosis of patients with covid-19, and for detecting people in the general population at increased risk of becoming infected with covid-19 or being admitted to hospital with the disease.
DESIGNLiving systematic review and critical appraisal.
DATA SOURCESPubMed and Embase through Ovid, Arxiv, medRxiv, and bioRxiv up to 7 April 2020.Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1328 http://dx.
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