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Background: Patients with Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) have a significant death rate due to comorbid diseases. As a result, identifying risk factors associated with poor outcomes in COVID-19 patients is important. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the admission and outcome status of the patients confirmed with Covid-19.Material & Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted at Mugda Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from April 2020 to September 2020. Total 205 patients with covid-19 were included in this study. Collection of data were checked and cleaned. After cleaning, the data were entered into computer and statistical analysis of the results being obtained by using windows-based computer software devised with Statistical Packages for Social Sciences version 24.Results:In this study among 205 patients. Most of the study people 41(20.0%) confirmed with covid-19 were admitted in September 2020. Followed by 20(9.76%) in April 2020, 33(16.09%) in May 2020, 35(17.07%) in June 2020, 38(18.53%) in July 2020, 37(18.04%) in August 2020 and 41(20.0%) in September. 23(11.21%) highest death with covid-19 were admitted in July 2020. Most of the patients 104(50.73%) were discharged with advice and 101(49.26%) patients had expired. Out of 101 expired patients 92 (91%) had comorbidities. The most common comorbidity amongst ICU admitted patients was respiratory syndrome (55 in number) and least common was hypertension (6 in number).Conclusions:The death rate for COVID-19 hospitalized patients is 49.26%. The most prevalent comorbidities in individuals who died as a result of COVID-19 were respiratory syndrome, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
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OBJECTIVES: The current Korean Mental Health Act (KMHA) indicates that a patient, who voluntarily gave their permission for admission into a mental health facility, has the right to be discharged upon personal request. However, there is no clause in the KMHA that allows a change in a patient's voluntary status under special circumstances. The purpose of this study was to investigate problems that may arise from the lack of such a clause ; problems that can result in misinterpretation and lead to the prohibition of voluntary admission status conversion. METHODS: Previous cases presented to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea were investigated in order to determine the current state in Korean psychiatric practice regarding the conversion from voluntary to involuntary admission status. In addition, examples of similar mental health legislation in use by the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and several advanced countries pertaining to such conversions were investigated. These examples were used as models for making recommendations for possible changes to the KMHA. RESULTS: From 2010 to 2014, more than 220 petitions were filed with the National Human Right Commission of Korea. The petitions involved voluntarily institutionalized patients who had their requests for discharge rejected. Based on mental health regulations of the UN, WHO, and such countries as the United States, England, Canada, Australia, and Japan, the KMHA should include a provision that, upon receiving a discharge request, allows for discharge refusal if the voluntarily admitted patient is considered not mentally fit. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that the absence of a regulation allowing admission status conversion in the current KMHA is inappropriate. Rectification of this absence is urgently needed.