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  • Clinical features and natural history of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) differ widely among different countries and during different phases of the pandemia. Here, we aimed to evaluate the case fatality rate (CFR) and to identify predictors of mortality in a cohort of COVID-19 patients admitted to three hospitals of Northern Italy between March 1 and April 28, 2020. All these patients had a confirmed diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection by molecular methods. During the study period 504/1697 patients died; thus, overall CFR was 29.7%. We looked for predictors of mortality in a subgroup of 486 patients (239 males, 59%; median age 71 years) for whom sufficient clinical data were available at data cut-off. Among the demographic and clinical variables considered, age, a diagnosis of cancer, obesity and current smoking independently predicted mortality. When laboratory data were added to the model in a further subgroup of patients, age, the diagnosis of cancer, and the baseline PaO(2)/FiO(2) ratio were identified as independent predictors of mortality. In conclusion, the CFR of hospitalized patients in Northern Italy during the ascending phase of the COVID-19 pandemic approached 30%. The identification of mortality predictors might contribute to better stratification of individual patient risk.
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  • 10.1038/s41598-020-77698-4
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  • Sci_Rep
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  • cc-by
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/8a3962dbbf0f109f44be1b965c58f495b4baa8d1.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7692524.xml.json
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  • 33244144.0
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  • Medline; PMC
?:title
  • Fatality rate and predictors of mortality in an Italian cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
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?:year
  • 2020-11-26

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