Characterization and clinical course of 1000 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in New York: retrospective case series.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in a large New York City medical center and describe their clinical course across the emergency department, hospital wards, and intensive care units.

Design

Retrospective manual medical record review.

Setting

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, a quaternary care academic medical center in New York City.

Participants

The first 1000 consecutive patients with a positive result on the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) who presented to the emergency department or were admitted to hospital between 1 March and 5 April 2020. Patient data were manually abstracted from electronic medic

SUBMITTER: Argenziano MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7256651 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature