"Vaccination saves lives: a real-time study of patients with chronic diseases and severe COVID-19 infection".

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to describe the demographic and clinical profile and ascertain the determinants of outcome among hospitalised COVID-19 adult patients enrolled in the National Clinical Registry for COVID-19 (NCRC).

Methods

NCRC is an on-going data collection platform operational in 42 hospitals across India. Data of hospitalized COVID-19 patients enrolled in NCRC between 1st September 2020 to 26th October 2021 were examined.

Results

Analysis of 29,509 hospitalised, adult COVID-19 patients [mean (SD) age: 51.1 (16.2) year; male: 18752 (63.6%)] showed that 15678 (53.1%) had at least one comorbidity. Among 25715 (87.1%) symptomatic patients, fever was the commonest symptom (72.3%) followed by shortness of breath (48.9%) and dry cough (45.5%). In-hospital mortal

SUBMITTER: Mukherjee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494346 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature