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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2023

Predictors of Mortality among Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 during the First Wave in India: A Multisite Case-Control Study.

Anand Krishnan, Rakesh Kumar, Ritvik Amarchand, Anant Mohan, Ravi Kant, Ankit Agarwal, Poorvi Kulshreshtha, Prasan Kumar Panda, Ajeet Singh Bhadoria, Neeraj Agarwal and 38 more

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

48 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.

Anand KrishnanCentre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
Rakesh KumarCentre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
Ritvik AmarchandCentre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
Anant MohanDepartment of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Ravi KantAIIMS, Rishikesh, India.
Ankit AgarwalDepartment of Anaesthesia, AIIMS, Rishikesh, India.
Poorvi KulshreshthaDepartment of Physiology, AIIMS, Rishikesh, India.
Prasan Kumar PandaDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh, India.
Ajeet Singh BhadoriaDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Rishikesh, India.
Neeraj AgarwalDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Patna, India.
Bijit BiswasDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Patna, India.
Rathish NairCollege of Nursing, AIIMS, Patna, India.
Naveet WigDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Rajesh MalhotraJai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Sushma BhatnagarDepartment of Onco-Anaesthesia, BRAIRCH, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Richa AggarwalDepartment of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Kapil Dev SoniDepartment of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Nirupam MadanDepartment of Hospital Administration, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Anjan TrikhaDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Pawan TiwariDepartment of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Angel Rajan SinghDepartment of Hospital Administration, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Mukta WyawahareDepartment of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), India.
Venugopalan GunasekaranDepartment of Geriatric Medicine, JIPMER, India.
Dineshbabu SekarDepartment of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), India.
Sanjeev MisraAIIMS, Jodhpur, India.
Pankaj BhardwajDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Jodhpur, India.
Akhil Dhanesh GoelDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Jodhpur, India.
Naveen DuttDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, AIIMS, Jodhpur, India.
Deepak KumarDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, Jodhpur, India.
Nitin M NagarkarAIIMS, Raipur, India.
Abhiruchi GalhotraDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Raipur, India.
Atul JindalDepartment of Paediatrics, AIIMS, Raipur, India.
Utsav RajNational Tuberculosis Elimination Program, AIIMS, Raipur, India.
Ajoy BeheraDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, AIIMS, Raipur, India.
Sabbah SiddiquiDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, Raipur, India.
Arun KokaneDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, India.
Rajnish JoshiDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, India.
Abhijit PakhareDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, India.
Farhan FarooqueDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, India.
Sai PawanDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, Bhopal, India.
Pradeep DeshmukhDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Nagpur, India.
Ranjan SolankiDepartment of Community & Family Medicine, AIIMS, Nagpur, India.
Bharatsing RathodDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, Nagpur, India.
Vibha DuttaAIIMS, Nagpur, India.
Prasanta Raghab MohapatraDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India.
Manoj Kumar PanigrahiDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India.
Sadananda BarikDepartment of Trauma & Emergency Medicine, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, India.
Randeep GuleriaAIIMS, New Delhi, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, NagpurJawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 6 million deaths globally. Understanding predictors of mortality will help in prioritizing patient care and preventive approaches. This was a multicentric, unmatched, hospital-based case-control study conducted in nine teaching hospitals in India. Cases were microbiologically confirmed COVID-19 patients who died in the hospital during the period of study and controls were microbiologically confirmed COVID-19 patients who were discharged from the same hospital after recovery. Cases were recruited sequentially from March 2020 until December-March 2021. All information regarding cases and controls was extracted retrospectively from the medical records of patients by trained physicians. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression was done to assess the association between various predictor variables and deaths due to COVID-19. A total of 2,431 patients (1,137 cases and 1,294 controls) were included in the study. The mean age of patients was 52.8 years (SD: 16.5 years), and 32.1% were females. Breathlessness was the most common symptom at the time of admission (53.2%). Increasing age (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 46-59 years, 3.4 [95% CI: 1.5-7.7]; 60-74 years, 4.1 [95% CI: 1.7-9.5]; and ≥ 75 years, 11.0 [95% CI: 4.0-30.6]); preexisting diabetes mellitus (aOR: 1.9 [95% CI: 1.2-2.9]); malignancy (aOR: 3.1 [95% CI: 1.3-7.8]); pulmonary tuberculosis (aOR: 3.3 [95% CI: 1.2-8.8]); breathlessness at the time of admission (aOR: 2.2 [95% CI: 1.4-3.5]); high quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score at the time of admission (aOR: 5.6 [95% CI: 2.7-11.4]); and oxygen saturation < 94% at the time of admission (aOR: 2.5 [95% CI: 1.6-3.9]) were associated with mortality due to COVID-19. These results can be used to prioritize patients who are at increased risk of death and to rationalize therapy to reduce mortality due to COVID-19.

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COVID-19Case-Control StudiesDyspneaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2

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