Clinical findings of “COVID-19” in the evidence based medicine and factors related to final outcome in hospitalized patients in Tabriz : a cross-sectional study

Abstract

More research is needed to identify the pathogenesis and background factors that aggravate the symptoms of covid-19 patients, therefore, the present study aims to determine the distribution of covid-19 cases and determine the relative frequency of its clinical findings based on evidence and factors affecting the final outcome in hospitalized patients. The city of Tabriz was done. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, after obtaining the code of conduct and consent from the participants, information was collected through a checklist. Finally, the collected data were analyzed with Spss software version 22 and a significance level of 0.05 was considered. Results: In the present study, 350 patients with an average age of 64 years were included in the study, of which 204 (58.3%) were men and 146 (41.7%) were women. The most common clinical findings in the number of 214 people (61.1%) in the form of weakness and malaise, in the number of 207 people (59.1%) in the form of cough, in the number of 202 people (57.7%) in the form of shortness of breath and ... was observed. The average length of stay of the studied patients in the hospital was 4 days, the minimum was 1 day and the maximum was 60 days. 110 patients (31.4%) were admitted to the ICU. A statistically significant relationship between blood group and hospitalization in the ICU was observed in the studied patients, so that among the patients who were hospitalized in the ICU, the highest amount was related to blood group A+ in the first place, followed by O+ blood group was in the second place.