Outcome of noncritical COVID-19 patients with early hospitalization and early antiviral treatment outside the ICU

ABSTRACT:

Background/aim

Despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for over 5 months, there is yet to be a standard management policy for all patients including those with mild-to-moderate cases. We evaluated the role of early hospitalization in combination with early antiviral therapy with COVID-19 patients in a tertiary care university hospital.

Materials and methods

This was a prospective, observational, single-center study on probable/confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized in a tertiary care hospital on COVID-19 wards between March 20 and April 30, 2020. The demographic, laboratory, and clinical data were collected.

Results

We included 174 consecutive probable/confirmed COVID-19 adult patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine wards of the Universi

SUBMITTER: Calık Basaran N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8203135 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature