Clinical characteristics of fever clinic visits during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a retrospective case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the change in characteristics of fever-clinic visits during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We sought to examine the changes in the volume, characteristics, and outcomes of patients presenting at a fever clinic duringclinic during the first-level response to COVID-19.

Methods

We conducted a single tertiary-center retrospective case-control study. We included consecutive patients aged 14 years or older who visited the fever clinic of a tertiary hospital during the period of the first-level response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Fuzhou, China (from 24 January to 26 February 2020). We also analyzed the data of patients in the same period of 2019 as a control. We compared a number of outcome measures, including the fever clinic vo

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9201161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature