The Clinical Course of COVID-19 in the Outpatient Setting: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Outpatient coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been insufficiently characterized. To determine the progression of disease and determinants of hospitalization, we conducted a prospective cohort study.

Methods

Outpatient adults with positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were recruited by phone between April 21 and July 23, 2020, after receiving outpatient or emergency department testing within a large health network in Maryland, United States. Symptoms were collected by participants on days 0, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28, and portable pulse oximeter oxygen saturation (SaO₂), heart rate, and temperature were collected for 15 consecutive days. Baseline demographics, com

SUBMITTER: Blair PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7881750 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature