Autor según el artículo: Iftimie, S; López-Azcona, AF; Lozano-Olmo, MJ; Hernández-Aguilera, A; Sarrà-Moretó, S; Joven, J; Camps, J; Castro, A
Departamento: Medicina i Cirurgia
Autor/es de la URV: Camps Andreu, Jorge / Castro Salomó, Antoni / Iftimie Iftimie, Simona Mihaela / Joven Maried, Jorge
Resumen: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and until September 2021, Spain suffered five waves of infection, the latter being related to the expansion of the Delta variant and with a high incidence. A vaccination campaign began in December 2020 and by the end of the fifth wave 77.3% of people had been fully vaccinated. Examining the changing dynamics of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on outcomes among those hospitalized is essential. Our objective was to ascertain any differences in the characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized patients during that period compared to previous waves. We prospectively enrolled 200 consecutively admitted hospital patients from each wave and collected their clinical and demographic data from the medical records, including symptoms, comorbidities, deaths and whether they needed to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit to receive assisted ventilation. We found that patients in the fifth wave were considerably younger than before, and the mortality rate fell from 22.5 to 2.0%. Admissions to the Intensive Care Unit decreased from 10 to 2%. Patients in the fifth wave had fewer comorbidities, and the age of the patients who died was higher than those who survived. Our results show a marked improvement in patient outcomes in the fifth wave, suggesting success of the vaccination campaign despite the explosion in cases due to the Delta variant.
Áreas temáticas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Saúde coletiva Química Psicología Odontología Nutrição Multidisciplinary sciences Multidisciplinary Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Materiais Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Letras / linguística Interdisciplinar Geografía Geociências Farmacia Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: simonamihaela.iftime@urv.cat jorge.camps@urv.cat antoni.castro@urv.cat jorge.joven@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0003-0714-8414 0000-0002-3165-3640 0000-0001-5441-6333 0000-0003-2749-4541
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-01-28
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22145-9
URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Scientific Reports. 12 (1):
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Iftimie, S; López-Azcona, AF; Lozano-Olmo, MJ; Hernández-Aguilera, A; Sarrà-Moretó, S; Joven, J; Camps, J; Castro, A (2022). Characteristics of hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection during successive waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in a reference hospital in Spain. Scientific Reports, 12(1), -. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22145-9
DOI del artículo: 10.1038/s41598-022-22145-9
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2022
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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