Presenting characteristics and clinical outcome of patients with COVID-19 in South Korea: A nationwide retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 13,000 cases were reported to be infected with COVID-19 by RT-PCR in South Korea. Most studies report clinical characteristics of hospitalized patients with COVID-19; the full spectrum of disease severity has thus not yet been well described.

Methods

Using retrospective observational methods, this study analyzed factors affecting early clinical symptoms, clinical progress, and severity of disease for COVID-19 positive patients released from quarantine to provide information on establishing optimized care for new patients. The medical data of 7803 laboratory-confirmed patients who had been discharged or died by April 30, 2020 were analyzed using multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Findings

On admission, 7383 (94•5%) patients were asymptomati

SUBMITTER: Park HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7691821 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature