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Symptom-Based Ebola Risk Score for Ebola Virus Disease, Conakry, Guinea - Volume 24, Number 6—June 2018 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC

Symptom-Based Ebola Risk Score for Ebola Virus Disease, Conakry, Guinea - Volume 24, Number 6—June 2018 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC





Volume 24, Number 6—June 2018

Research Letter

Symptom-Based Ebola Risk Score for Ebola Virus Disease, Conakry, Guinea

Technical Appendices

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Brecht IngelbeenComments to Author , Anja De Weggheleire, Michel Van Herp, and Johan van Griensven
Author affiliations: Médecins sans Frontières, Conakry, Guinea (B. Ingelbeen, M. Van Herp)Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A. De Weggheleire, J. van Griensven)European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden (B. Ingelbeen).
To the Editor: In their article, Oza et al. proposed a score to risk-stratify Ebola virus disease (EVD) suspected cases while patients in an Ebola treatment center await laboratory confirmation (1). The Ebola symptom-based risk (ESR) score, consisting of 6 symptoms (conjunctivitis, diarrhea, nausea/vomiting, headache, difficulty breathing, loss of appetite), performed well in internal validation, but no external validation was done.
We evaluated the proposed ESR score on 805 EVD-positive and 1,506 EVD-negative case-patients in the Conakry Ebola Treatment Center (ETC), Conakry, Guinea (2). The ESR score yielded an area under the curve of 0.58 (95% CI 0.56–0.61), which is lower than the 0.83 (95% CI 0.79–0.86) Oza et al. reported (Technical Appendix[PDF - 244 KB - 1 page] Figure). Using the proposed risk thresholds (i.e., low risk if score <0, medium risk if score = 0, and high risk if score >0), 371 (46%) EVD-positive patients of the Conakry ETC were classified as high risk and 647 (43%) EVD-negative patients as low risk. However, negative and positive predictive values were generally low (Technical Appendix[PDF - 244 KB - 1 page] Table). Reasons for poor validation could include differences in applying the general EVD suspect case definition (integration of patients’ contact history); in patient characteristics because organization and access to care for EVD and non-EVD illness was different (patients in holding centers or ETC); in the quality of data collection (symptoms are entirely self-reported); and in underlying diseases of EVD-negative patients.
Our findings underline the importance of external validation in various settings before risk scores are applied outside of the setting within which they were developed, as well as the need to incorporate patient contact history into predictive models. Point-of-care EVD diagnostic platforms can perform reliable confirmatory testing within 90 minutes (3). We argue that, by integrating rapid confirmatory testing in triage, providers can avoid classifying patients by their likelihood of infection with Ebola virus while waiting for laboratory confirmation.
Dr. Ingelbeen, a pharmacist and epidemiologist, worked during the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak with Médecins sans Frontières in Guinea. He is a European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) fellow at Santé publique France. His research interests include emerging and vectorborne infectious diseases.
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Acknowledgment

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References

  1. Oza SSesay AARussell NJWing KBoufkhed SVandi Let al. Symptom- and laboratory-based Ebola risk scores to differentiate likely Ebola infections. Emerg Infect Dis2017;23:17929DOIPubMed
  2. Ingelbeen BBah EIDecroo TBalde INordenstedt Hvan Griensven Jet al. Mortality among PCR negative admitted Ebola suspects during the 2014/15 outbreak in Conakry, Guinea: A retrospective cohort study. PLoS One2017;12:e0180070 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180070DOIPubMed
  3. Van den Bergh RChaillet PSow MSAmand Mvan Vyve CJonckheere Set al. Feasibility of Xpert Ebola Assay in Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola Program, Guinea. Emerg Infect Dis2016;22:2106DOIPubMed
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Technical Appendix

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Cite This Article

DOI: 10.3201/eid2406.171812
Original Publication Date: 5/3/2018

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