Epidemiological trend and clinical profile of COVID-19 patients: Experience from a designated COVID-19 center in Delhi.
J Family Med Prim Care
; 11(5): 2106-2113, 2022 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1875944
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To study the epidemiological characteristics of the pandemic by describing the clinical profile of the COVID-19 patients presenting to a super specialty hospital.Methods:
This was a descriptive study using medical records of patients who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction between 17th March and 15th January 2021 while maintaining confidentiality. The clinical and demographic data of all the patients were entered in a Microsoft Excel and statistical analysis was done using SPSS 21 software. Regression analysis was performed and a P value < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.Results:
A total of 3534 patients were enrolled in this study aged 9-96 years. Among patients with symptoms, fever and cough were the most common presenting symptoms, while 5.6% of the patients were asymptomatic. Hypertension was the most common comorbidity (37%), while no comorbidities were present in 43.0% of the participants and this was statistically significant for age (P = 0.000). Among patient outcomes, >50% of patients were in home isolation, while 11% of patients had a fatal outcome. Elder age group had a higher proportion of expiry among outcomes (P <= 0.001). Most patients had a hospital stay of 9-11 days. A total of 63 health workers were included with male female ratio being 3.51.Conclusion:
Our study reflects that majority of the positive cases that presented to the hospital had mild/moderate symptoms. We believe that appropriate triaging of patients followed by early institution of medicine and good critical care services may help to control this epidemic.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
J Family Med Prim Care
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jfmpc.jfmpc_1981_21
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