COVID-19 or not COVID-19? Compared characteristics of patients hospitalized for suspected COVID-19.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
; 40(9): 2023-2028, 2021 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1122785
ABSTRACT
During an epidemic period, we compared patients hospitalized for initial suspicion of COVID-19 but for whom an alternative diagnosis was finally retained (n = 152) with those who had COVID-19 (n = 222). Most common diagnoses were another infectious disease and heart failure. COVID-19-negative patients were more often active smokers had less often cough, fever, and digestive symptoms, as compared to the 222 COVID-19-positive patients. They had higher median neutrophil and lymphocyte counts and lower CRP level. In multivariate analysis, no current smoking, neurocognitive disorder, myalgia, and fibrinogen ≥4g/L were independently associated with a final diagnosis of COVID-19.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
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Microbiology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S10096-021-04216-3
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