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Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study by Fei Zhou; Ting Yu; Ronghui Du; Guohui Fan; Ying Liu; Zhibo Liu; Jie Xiang; Yeming Wang; Bin Song; Xiaoying Gu; Lulu Guan; Yuan Wei; Hui Li; Xudong Wu; Jiuyang Xu; Shengjin Tu; Yi Zhang; Hua Chen; Bin Cao is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

## Background: Since december, 2019, wuhan, china, has experienced an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2). epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with covid-19 have been reported but risk factors for mortality and a detailed clinical course of illness, including viral shedding, have not been well described. ## Methods: In this retrospective, multicentre cohort study, we included all adult inpatients (≥18 years old) with laboratory-confirmed covid-19 from jinyintan hospital and wuhan pulmonary hospital (wuhan, china) who had been discharged or had died by jan 31, 2020. demographic, clinical, treatment, and laboratory data, including serial samples for viral rna detection, were extracted from electronic medical records and compared between survivors and non-survivors. we used univariable and multivariable logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in-hospital death. ## Findings: 191 patients (135 from jinyintan hospital and 56 from wuhan pulmonary hospital) were included in this study, of whom 137 were discharged and 54 died in hospital. 91 (48%) pati

Author

Fei Zhou; Ting Yu; Ronghui Du; Guohui Fan; Ying Liu; Zhibo Liu; Jie Xiang; Yeming Wang; Bin Song; Xiaoying Gu; Lulu Guan; Yuan Wei; Hui Li; Xudong Wu; Jiuyang Xu; Shengjin Tu; Yi Zhang; Hua Chen; Bin Cao

Publisher

The Lancet; Elsevier ; The Lancet Publishing Group; Elsevier BV; ScienceOpen; Research Square (ISSN 0140-6736)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences