A retrospective analysis of 902 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Lebanon: clinical epidemiology and risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The clinical epidemiology of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has never been described before in Lebanon. Moreover, the hospital admission and PCR positivity rates have not been assessed and compared yet.

Objectives

To describe the characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized patients with coronavirus induced disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Lebanon and identify risk factors for severe disease or death.

Study design

This is a retrospective mono-center cohort study in which we used patients' files to extract and analyse data on demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as mortality. Moreover, we tracked the pandemic by recording the daily total and ICU inpatient census and the PCR positivity rate for admitted and outpatients.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Dakroub F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8532499 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature