COVID-19 fatality rates in hospitalized patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Although general and local public health report deathly cases, case fatality rates are still largely unknown. Thus, we sought to evaluate the mortality of COVID-19.

Methods

We searched PubMed and EMBASE databases for articles evaluating the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients that included clinical outcomes, between December 2020 and 24 April 2020. Two authors performed an independent selection using predefined terms of search.

Results

We retrieved 33 studies with a total of 13,398 patients with COVID-19 diagnosis. The mortality rate of the COVID-19 patients was 17.1% (95% CI 12.7; 22.7, I² = 96.9%). For general patients admitted to the hos

SUBMITTER: Macedo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7920817 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature