1. Clinical characteristics and predictors of mortality associated with COVID-19 in elderly patients from a long-term care facility
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Trecarichi, Enrico Maria, Mazzitelli, Maria, Serapide, Francesca, Pelle, Maria Chiara, Tassone, Bruno, Arrighi, Eugenio, Perri, Graziella, Fusco, Paolo, Scaglione, Vincenzo, Davoli, Chiara, Lionello, Rosaria, La Gamba, Valentina, Marrazzo, Giuseppina, Busceti, Maria Teresa, Giudice, Amerigo, Ricchio, Marco, Cancelliere, Anna, Lio, Elena, Procopio, Giada, Costanzo, Francesco Saverio, Foti, Daniela Patrizia, Matera, Giovanni, Torti, Carlo, Laganà, Domenico, Petullà, Maria, Bertucci, Bernardo, Quirino, Angela, Barreca, Giorgio Settimo, Giancotti, Aida, Gallo, Luigia, Lamberti, Angelo, Liberto, Maria Carla, Marascio, Nadia, De Francesco, Adele Emanuela, and IDTM UMG COVID-19 Group
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,China ,Epidemiology ,Article ,COVID-19 ,Infectious diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,Lymphopenia ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Hospital Mortality ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Multidisciplinary ,Hypernatremia ,Proportional hazards model ,business.industry ,Interleukin-6 ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Mortality rate ,Outbreak ,medicine.disease ,Long-Term Care ,Nursing Homes ,Hospitalization ,Long-term care ,030104 developmental biology ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,Cohort ,Female ,business ,Cytokine Release Syndrome ,Cohort study - Abstract
Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread from China all over the world and many COVID-19 outbreaks have been reported in long-term care facilities (LCTF). However, data on clinical characteristics and prognostic factors in such settings are scarce. We conducted a retrospective, observational cohort study to assess clinical characteristics and baseline predictors of mortality of COVID-19 patients hospitalized after an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a LTCF. A total of 50 patients were included. Mean age was 80 years (SD, 12 years), and 24/50 (57.1%) patients were males. The overall in-hospital mortality rate was 32%. At Cox regression analysis, significant predictors of in-hospital mortality were: hypernatremia (HR 9.12), lymphocyte count
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- 2020