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Unexpected high frequency of early mortality in COVID ‐19: a single‐centre experience during the first wave of the pandemic
Author(s) -
Consuegra Diana,
SeidnerIsaacs Yoshua,
LariosSanjuan Didier,
Ibarra Julieth,
BenavidesRodríguez Pedro,
Viloria Samir,
Buendía Emiro,
Viasus Diego
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.15134
Subject(s) - medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , virology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
We report the high frequency of early mortality in COVID‐19 patients (48.6% of 72 deaths). Early deaths were not explained by differences in age, sex and comorbidities, but they had a more severe disease at hospital admission compared with late deaths. These data highlight the importance of outpatient monitoring for the early identification of COVID‐19 patients who require hospital admission.