1. Clinical Characteristics and In-Hospital Mortality for COVID-19 Across The Globe
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Sunny Goel, Tarun Jain, Amit Hooda, Rohit Malhotra, Gurpreet Johal, Reza Masoomi, Haroon Kamran, Parasuram Melarcode Krishnamoorthy, Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan, Abhishek Sharma, and Umesh Gidwani
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Clinical characteristics ,COVID-19 ,In-hospital mortality ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Abstract
Abstract Introduction Numerous case series have reported on the baseline characteristics and in-hospital mortality of patients with COVID-19, however, these studies included patients localized in a specific geographic region. The purpose of our study was to identify differences in the clinical characteristics and the in-hospital mortality of patients with a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 internationally. Methods A comprehensive search of all published literature on adult patients with laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 that reported on the clinical characteristics and in-hospital mortality was performed. Groups were compared using a Chi-square test with Yates correction of continuity. A two-tailed p value of less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results After screening 516 studies across the globe, 43 studies from 12 countries were included in our final analysis. Patients with COVID-19 in America and Europe were older compared to their Asian counterparts. Europe had the highest percentage of male patients. American and European patients had a higher incidence of co-morbid conditions (p
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- 2020
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