作者
Fatema S Shaikh, Nahier Aldhafferi, Areej Buker, Abdullah Alqahtani, Subhodeep Dey, Saema Abdulhamid, Dalal Ali Mahaii AlBuhairi, Raha Saud Abdulaziz Alkabour, Waad Sami O Atiyah, Sara Bachar Chrouf, Abdussalam Alshehri, Sunday Olusanya Olatunji, Abdullah M Almuhaideb, Mohammed S Alshahrani, Yousof AlMunsour, Vahitha B Abdul-Salam
发表日期
2021/8/12
期刊
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
页码范围
2169-2183
出版商
Taylor & Francis
简介
Purpose
The first novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) case in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was reported in Qatif in March 2020 with continual increase in infection and mortality rates since then. In this study, we aim to determine risk factors which effect severity and mortality rates in a cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in KSA.
Method
We reviewed medical records of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 positive results via reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) tests at Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh between May and August 2020. Data were obtained for patient’s demography, body mass index (BMI), and comorbidities. Additional data on patients that required intensive care unit (ICU) admission and clinical outcomes were recorded and analyzed with Python Pandas.
Results
A total of 565 COVID-19 positive patients were inducted in the study out of …
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