Outcomes of Patients with COVID-19 from a Specialized Cancer Care Emergency Room.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our goal was to identify discrete clinical characteristics associated with safe discharge from an emergency department/urgent care for patients with a history of cancer and concurrent COVID-19 infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and prior to widespread vaccination.

Patients and methods

We retrospectively analyzed 255 adult patients with a history of cancer who presented to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) urgent care center (UCC) from March 1, 2020 to May 31, 2020 with concurrent COVID-19 infection. We evaluated associations between patient characteristics and 30-day mortality from initial emergency department (ED) or urgent care center (UCC) visit and the absence of a severe event within 30 days. External validation was performed on a retrospectiv

SUBMITTER: Nath SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9480619 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature