Differences in the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients who died in hospital during different phases of the pandemic: national data from Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Epidemiological data obtained during the initial wave of the COVID-19 epidemic showed that persons dying with COVID-19 were typically older men with multiple chronic conditions. No studies have assessed if the characteristics of patients dying with COVID-19 have changed in the second phase of the epidemic, when the initial wave subsided. The aim of the present study was to compare characteristics of patients dying with COVID-19 in Italy in the first 'peak' phase of the epidemic and in its second phase.

Methods

Medical charts of patients with COVID-19 who died while in hospital in Italy were reviewed to extract information on pre-existing comorbidities, in-hospital complications, and disease trajectories. The course of the epidemic was classified in two 3-month per

SUBMITTER: Palmieri L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7750107 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature