Open AccessDid patients with COVID-19 receive timely treatment in the early epidemic?—a systematic review and meta-analysis
Author(s) -
on behalf of COVID- Evidence and Recommendations Working Group,
Peipei Du,
Weixiang Chen,
Xufei Luo,
Yaolong Chen,
Qianling Shi,
Meng Lv,
Jie Wang,
Xuemei Shi,
Xiaofeng Ma,
Tianying Yang,
Shuya Lu,
Tingting Li,
Xiaokun Yang,
Shu Yang,
Xixi Feng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2224-5839
pISSN - 2224-5820
DOI - 10.21037/apm-21-1975
Subject(s) - medicine , case fatality rate , cochrane library , meta analysis , covid-19 , confidence interval , china , medline , web of science , relative risk , demography , epidemiology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , law , sociology
Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) showed a significant difference in case fatality rate between different regions at the early stage of the epidemic. In addition to the well-known factors such as age structure, detection efficiency, and race, there was also a possibility that medical resource shortage caused the increase of the case fatality rate in some regions.
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