Baseline clinical features of COVID-19 patients, delay of hospital admission and clinical outcome: A complex relationship.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Delay between symptom onset and access to care is essential to prevent clinical worsening for different infectious diseases. For COVID-19, this delay might be associated with the clinical prognosis, but also with the different characteristics of patients. The objective was to describe characteristics and symptoms of community-acquired (CA) COVID-19 patients at hospital admission according to the delay between symptom onset and hospital admission, and to identify determinants associated with delay of admission.

Methods

The present work was based on prospective NOSO-COR cohort data, and restricted to patients with laboratory confirmed CA SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to Lyon hospitals between February 8 and June 30, 2020. Long delay of hospital admission was defin

SUBMITTER: Dananche C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8741026 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature