Therapeutic agents tested in 238 COVID-19 hospitalized patients and their relationship with mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

In the last months great efforts have been developed to evaluate the more efficient therapeutic agents in the management of patients with COVID-19. Currently, no specific drug combination has consistently demonstrated an association with mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the pattern of associations observed between the different in-hospital treatments administered to a series of 238 patients admitted for COVID-19 and their relationship with mortality.

Methods

The electronic medical records of patients that discharged or died from COVID-19 in the Hospital Universitario San Cecilio (Granada, Spain) between March 16 and April 10, 2020 were analysed. From these records, information was obtained on sex, age, comorbidities at admission, clini

SUBMITTER: Rivera-Izquierdo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature