An emergency medicine physician at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital in Providence — Adam C. Levine, MD — has created a tool to help determine the likelihood that patients who have Ebola symptoms will actually have Ebola.
The tool, called the Ebola Prediction Score, uses six Ebola symptoms — exposure to an Ebola patient, diarrhea, loss of appetite, muscle pain, difficulty swallowing and absence of abdominal pain — to create the model, and clinicians score patients based on those signs.
"The Ebola Prediction Score will help clinicians risk-stratify patients already meeting one or more suspect definitions of [Ebola virus disease]," said Dr. Levine.
Dr. Levine's research was published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.