Predictors of prolonged hospitalization of COVID-19 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite the importance of hospital bed network during the pandemic, there are scarce data available regarding factors predictive of prolonged length of hospitalization of COVID-19 patients.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed a total of 5959 consecutive hospitalized COVID-19 patients in period 3/2020-6/2021 from a single tertiary-level institution. Prolonged hospitalization was defined as hospital stay > 21 days to account for mandatory isolation period in immunocompromised patients.

Results

Median length of hospital stay was 10 days. A total of 799 (13.4%) patients required prolonged hospitalization. Factors that remained independently associated with prolonged hospitalization in multivariate analysis were severe or critical COVID-19 and worse functional stat

SUBMITTER: Lucijanic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10133912 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature