COVID-19 pneumonia assessed at a private hospital, a field hospital, and a public-referral hospital: population analysis, chest computed tomography findings, and outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare a private quaternary referral hospital, a public tertiary hospital, and a field hospital dedicated to patients with COVID-19, regarding patients' characteristics, clinical parameters, laboratory, imaging findings, and outcomes of patients with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.

Methods

Retrospective multicenter observational study that assessed the association of clinical, laboratory and CT data of 453 patients with COVID-19, and also their outcomes (hospital discharge or admission, intensive care unit admission, need for mechanical ventilation, and mortality caused by COVID-19).

Results

The mean age of patients was 55 years (±16 years), 58.1% of them were male, and 41.9% were female. Considering stratification by the hospital of care, significant d

SUBMITTER: Yokoo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10793654 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature