Outcome Improvement Between the First Two Waves of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in a Single Tertiary-Care Hospital in Belgium.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare patient management and outcome during the first and second waves of the coronavirus 2019 pandemic.

Design

Single-center prospective cohort study.

Setting

Tertiary-care University Hospital.

Patients

All adult patients admitted in either the first (from March 15 to May 15, 2020) or second (from October 1 to November 30, 2020) wave of coronavirus disease 2019.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Primary outcome was 30-day mortality. During the second wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, 33 patients (4.8%) were transferred due to overcrowding and excluded from analysis. There were 341 (first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic) and 695 (second wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic) corona

SUBMITTER: Lambermont B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162523 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature