ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2024
Difference in the epidemiological and clinical profiles of mortality between the first and second waves of COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case on March 26, 2020. This study aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical profiles of COVID-19 mortality that occurred during the first and second waves of COVID-19 pandemic and to compare the differences between them. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis was a retrospective cohort study carried out among COVID-19 patients admitted at GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair. Socio-demographic and clinical details were retrieved from the case records using structured proforma. Comparison of the study variables between the first and second waves was done by using Chi-square test using SPSS version 20.
resultsThe first wave had total cases of 4994 and 62 deaths, and the second wave had 2734 cases and 67 deaths. The case fatality among COVID-19 cases during the first and second waves of the pandemic was 1.24% and 2.45%, respectively. There was no significant age and gender difference of patients between the two waves. Those who had co-morbidities during the first wave were 52 (83.8%), and those who had co-morbidities during the second wave were 45 (67.2%). The median duration of hospital stay in days during the first and second waves of the pandemic was 4 and 6 days, respectively.
conclusionThere was no significant difference in the age and gender distribution between the two waves; however, those who died during the second wave had a significantly higher percentage of co-morbidities. Therefore, health policy makers should develop a targeted approach to provide appropriate education, support, and awareness of patients with underlying diseases and allocate health care resources accordingly.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.