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Observational studyViruses2024

Intensive Care Unit Mortality Trends during the First Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study.

Paraskevi C Fragkou, Sotirios P Karagiannis, Dimitra Dimopoulou, Sotiria Kefala, Fotini Fligou, Parisis Gallos, Edison Jahaj, Angeliki Bellou, Evangelia Koukaki, Eleni Magira and 10 more

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5 · Who and what money

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20 authors.

Paraskevi C FragkouFirst Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Diseases, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10676 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2022-2949
Sotirios P KaragiannisFirst Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Diseases, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10676 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2823-5675
Dimitra DimopoulouSecond Department of Pediatrics, "Aghia Sophia" Children's Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4470-263X
Sotiria KefalaDivision of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Fotini FligouDivision of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Parisis GallosComputational Biomedicine Laboratory, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 18534 Piraeus, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8630-7200
Edison JahajFirst Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Diseases, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10676 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7306-713X
Angeliki BellouDivision of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Evangelia KoukakiIntensive Care Unit, First Department of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Chest Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9770-173X
Eleni MagiraFirst Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Diseases, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10676 Athens, Greece.
Philippos OrfanosDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Georgios PapathanakosDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2521-5326
Athanasios PapathanasiouDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Emmanouil PediaditisDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Heraklion, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Greece.
Konstantinos PontikisIntensive Care Unit, First Department of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Chest Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3533-9608
Nikoletta RovinaIntensive Care Unit, First Department of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Chest Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0138-5582
Katerina VaporidiDepartment of Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Heraklion, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Greece.
Menelaos XenikakisDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.
Maria TheodorakopoulouFirst Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Diseases, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10676 Athens, Greece.
Anastasia KotanidouFirst Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Diseases, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10676 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2508-500X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Data on COVID-19 mortality among patients in intensive care units (ICUs) from Eastern and/or Southern European countries, including Greece, are limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ICU mortality trends among critically ill COVID-19 patients during the first two years of the pandemic in Greece and to further investigate if certain patients' clinical characteristics contributed to this outcome. We conducted a multi-center retrospective observational study among five large university hospitals in Greece, between February 2020 and January 2022. All adult critically ill patients with confirmed COVID-19 disease who required ICU admission for at least 24 h were eligible. In total, 1462 patients (66.35% males) were included in this study. The mean age of this cohort was 64.9 (±13.27) years old. The 28-day mortality rate was 35.99% (

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COVID-19Critical IllnessHospital MortalityIntensive Care UnitsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleGreeceHumansMaleMiddle AgedPandemicsRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19GreeceICUmortalitySARS-CoV-2

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PMCPMC11054592

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