Angelo Zinellu, Andrea De Vito, Valentina Scano, Panagiotis Paliogiannis, Vito Fiore, Giordano Madeddu, Ivana Maida, Elisabetta Zinellu, Arduino Aleksander Mangoni, Luigi Benedetto Arru, Ciriaco Carru, Sergio Babudieri, Pietro Pirina, Alessandro Giuseppe Fois
INTRODUCTION: The early identification of factors that predict the length of hospital stay (HS) in patients affected by coronavirus desease (COVID-19) might assist therapeutic decisions and patient flow management. METHODOLOGY: We collected, at the time of admission, routine clinical, laboratory, and imaging parameters of hypoxia, lung damage, inflammation, and organ dysfunction in a consecutive series of 50 COVID-19 patients admitted to the Respiratory Disease and Infectious Disease Units of the University Hospital of Sassari (North-Sardinia, Italy) and alive on discharge...
March 31, 2021: Journal of Infection in Developing Countries