Clinical characteristics and in-hospital mortality of patients with COVID-19 in Chile: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims of this study

To describe the Latin American population affected by COVID-19, and to determine relevant risk factors for in-hospital mortality.

Methods

We prospectively registered relevant clinical, laboratory, and radiological data of adult patients with COVID-19, admitted within the first 100 days of the pandemic from a single teaching hospital in Santiago, Chile. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality. Secondary outcomes included the need for respiratory support and pharmacological treatment, among others. We combined the chronic disease burden and the severity of illness at admission with predefined clinically relevant risk factors. Cox regression models were used to identify risk factors for in-hospital mortality.

Results

We enrolled 395 adult patient

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8646285 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature