Risk factors for mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Northern Ethiopia: A retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 is a deadly pandemic caused by an RNA virus that belongs to the family of CORONA virus. To counter the COVID-19 pandemic in resource limited settings, it is essential to identify the risk factors of COVID-19 mortality. This study was conducted to identify the social and clinical determinants of mortality in COVID-19 patients hospitalized in four treatment centers of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia.

Methods

We reviewed data from 6,637 COVID-19 positive cases that were reported from May 7, 2020 to October 28, 2020. Among these, 925 were admitted to the treatment centers because of their severity and retrospectively analyzed. The data were entered into STATA 16 version for analysis. The descriptive analysis such as median, interquartile range, frequency distributi

SUBMITTER: Abebe HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9371316 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature