China
Retrospective cohort study
Medical records
201
Patients aged 21 to 83 years with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia hospitalized at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China.
All patients were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia according to World Health Organization interim guidance. According tohospitaldata, patients were admitted from December 25, 2019, to January 26, 2020.
0
COVID-19 (severe/fatal)
84
Development of ARDS and death among those with ARDS. World Health Organization interim guidance was used to define ARDS.
Symptoms
Body temperature
Highest temperature >=39 ?C
77
Highest temperature <39 ?C
93
Hazard ratio
1.770 (1.110-2.840)
No
Yes
Bivariate Cox proportional hazard ratio (HR) models were used to determine HRs and 95% CIs between individual factors on the development of ARDS or progression from ARDS to death.
none
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