SynthesisAnnals of epidemiology2021
COVID-19 fatality rates in hospitalized patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.
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100 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Modeling the impact of hospitalization-induced behavioral changes on the spread of COVID-19 in New York City.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2025Article
- Association of the ICH Score With Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment Over a 10-Year Period.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2025Article
- Clinical Course and Mortality Predictors in Adult Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Infection-A Retrospective Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Spatial analysis of COVID-19 incidence and mortality rates in northwest iran for future epidemic preparedness.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Impact of Hepatic Dysfunction on Mortality among Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: An Inhospital Observational Study.Annals of African medicine · 2025Article
- Fragmentomics of plasma mitochondrial and nuclear DNA inform prognosis in COVID-19 patients with critical symptoms.BMC medical genomics · 2024Article
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- Evaluation of risk prediction scores for adults hospitalized with COVID-19 in a highly-vaccinated population, Aotearoa New Zealand 2022.IJID regions · 2024Article
- Impact of pneumothorax on mortality, morbidity, and hospital resource utilization in COVID-19 patients: a propensity matched analysis of nationwide inpatient sample database.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
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- Seroprevalence of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibodies in Healthcare Personnel in El Salvador Prior to Vaccination Campaigns.Infectious disease reports · 2024Article
- Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalization and Fatality Rates in the Prevaccination Period, United States.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the relationship of treatment and vaccination with prognosis in patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19.Inflammopharmacology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Although general and local public health report deathly cases, case fatality rates are still largely unknown. Thus, we sought to evaluate the mortality of COVID-19.
methodsWe searched PubMed and EMBASE databases for articles evaluating the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients that included clinical outcomes, between December 2020 and 24 April 2020. Two authors performed an independent selection using predefined terms of search.
resultsWe retrieved 33 studies with a total of 13,398 patients with COVID-19 diagnosis. The mortality rate of the COVID-19 patients was 17.1% (95% CI 12.7; 22.7, I
conclusionHigh COVID-19 mortality among general admitted patients and critical care cases should guide resources allocations and economic burden calculations during the pandemics.
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