Clinical characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 and development of a prediction model for prolonged hospital length of stay.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The epidemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global health emergency, but the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 are not fully described. We aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 outside of Wuhan city; and to develop a multivariate model to predict the risk of prolonged length of stay in hospital (ProLOS).

Methods

The study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Zhejiang province from January to February 20, 2020. Medical records of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were categorized into the ProLOS and non-ProLOS groups by hospital length of stay greater and less than 14 days, respectively. Conventional descriptive statistics were applied. Multivariate regression model was built

SUBMITTER: Hong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7210129 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature