Incidence of Death and Its Predictors of COVID-19 in Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Follow Up Study.
Infect Drug Resist
; 15: 4907-4913, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2005799
ABSTRACT
Background:
Risk factors associated with COVID-19 incidence of death would aid to notify the most favorable management strategies, hang about undecided, Moreover, studies regarding this issue are limited in Ethiopia and no region-wise study is conducted. Hence, the study investigated the COVID-19 incidence of death and its predictors in the Amhara regional state, Ethiopia.Methods:
A facility-based retrospective survey was conducted at all Amhara regional state COVID-19 treatment centers from 13 March 2020, through 13 January 2022. Epidata version 3.1 and STATA version 14 were used for data entry and analysis, respectively. Linearized survey analysis in a stratified Cox regression model was fitted to identify independent risk factors. P-value with 95% CI for hazard ratio was used for testing the significance at alpha 0.05.Results:
A total of 28,533 study participants were analyzed in this study. Of these, 2873 (11.2%) died and 25,660 (88.8%) were recovered from COVID-19. The death rate was 11.78 per 1000 person-days of observation with a median survival time of 32 days with IQR [12, 44]. Patients with co-morbidities (AHR = 1.54 95% CI 1.51-1.55), patients with age <5-year (AHR = 1.69 95% CI 1.78-1.81) and patients with age 60+ years (AHR = 2.91 95% CI 1.79-3.99), patients with asymptomatic diseases condition (AHR =1.15 95% CI 1.01-1.19), and being male (AHR = 1.22 95% CI 1.18-1.27) were independent significant risk factors of death from COVID-19.Conclusion:
A relatively high incidence of death from COVID-19 was found in this study. Significant risk factors were identified as patients with age <5 years, patients with age 60+ Years, being male, patients having at least one comorbid condition, and patients with asymptomatic disease conditions. These factors should be taken into consideration for a strategy of quarantining and treating COVID-19 patients.
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Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Infect Drug Resist
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
IDR.S380591
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