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Clinical predictors of late SARS‐CoV‐2 positivity in Italian internal medicine wards.
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Article
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Carbone, Federico; Ministrini, Stefano; Garbarino, Sara; Vischi, Giulia; Carpaneto, Valeria; Sobrero, Matteo; Monti, Chiara; De Stefano, Daria; Saccomanno, Benedetta; Massone, Marcella; Liberale, Luca; Piccardo, Arianna; Calvia, Alessandro; Vischi, Federica; Bagnasco, Maddalena; Magnani, Ottavia; Caiti, Matteo; Cenni, Elisabetta; Ballarino, Paola; Giuntini, Patrizia
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*SARS-CoV-2
*INTERNAL medicine
*OPTIMISM
*COUGH
*COVID-19
*MEDICAL ethics
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0014-2972
Abstract
QI-QIV: quartiles of length of stay in ED gl Longer stay at emergency department predicts overall in-hospital mortality during the first w... Patients discharge after hospitalization in internal medicine wards formally not SARS-CoV-2-dedicated took place mostly at home (60.88%), while frailer patients were transferred to nursing homes (5.8%) (Table S5). Keywords: emergency department; ferritin; internal medicine; lactate dehydrogenase; mortality; SARS-CoV-2 EN emergency department ferritin internal medicine lactate dehydrogenase mortality SARS-CoV-2 1 7 7 12/29/21 20220101 NES 220101 INTRODUCTION SARS-CoV-2 represents a "Pandora's box" highlighting critical issues for in-hospital management of infectious patients. Longer stay at emergency department predicts late SARS-CoV-2 positivity Out of 478 hospitalizations in internal medicine wards not SARS-CoV-2-dedicated, a total of 40 patients presented late positivity (8.3%). Although we considered a 14 days window as suggested by the WHO, the median incubation time for SARS-CoV-2 infection was six days long, in line with reported in literature.11,12 Being the median ED hospitalization length shorter (three days), both out-hospital infection and in-hospital spreading of SARS-CoV-2 infection should be considered. [Extracted from the article]