Risk factors for mortality of adult patients with COVID-19 hospitalised in an emerging country: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe mortality of in-hospital patients with COVID-19 and compare risk factors between survivors and non-survivors.

Design

Prospective cohort of adult inpatients.

Setting

Tertiary healthcare teaching hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Participants

All patients with confirmed COVID-19 hospitalised from 25 March to 7 September 2020 were included. End of study: 7 November 2020.

Primary outcome measures

Patient survival analysed by the Kaplan-Meier method and comparison of factors by the log-rank test. Mortality risk factors analysed by multivariate Cox's proportional-hazard model.

Results

One thousand ten patients included: 386 (38%) died, 618 (61%) alive at discharge and six (0.6%) remained hospitalised. There was predominance of men (

SUBMITTER: Cueto-Manzano AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8290947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature