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Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19 in a Tertiary Care Center in Mexico City: A Prospective Cohort Study

2020; Permanyer; Volume: 72; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24875/ric.20000211

2564-8896

Edgar Ortíz‐Brizuela, Marco Villanueva-Reza, María Fernanda González-Lara, Karla M. Tamez‐Torres, Carla Marina Román-Montes, Bruno Alejandro Díaz-Mejía, Esteban Pérez-García, Antonio Olivas‐Martínez, Sandra Rajme‐López, Bernardo Alfonso Martínez-Guerra, Nereyda A. de-León-Cividanes, Oscar A. Fernández‐García, Lorena Guerrero‐Torres, Lorena Torres-González, Fabián A. Carrera-Patiño, Ever A. Corral-Herrera, Aldo N. Hernández-Alemón, Maria de los Á. Tovar-Vargas, Yamile G. Serrano-Pinto, Cristian E. Espejo-Ortiz, María de la L. Morales-Ortega, Oscar Arturo Lozano-Cruz, José Luis Cárdenas-Fragoso, José de J. Vidal-Mayo, Thierry Hernández‐Gilsoul, Eduardo Rivero-Sigarroa, Guillermo Domínguez‐Cherit, Luz E. Cervantes-Villar, Maria del P. Ramos-Cervantes, Violeta Ibarra-González, Juan J. Calva, Juan Sierra‐Madero, Álvaro López-Íñiguez, Eric Ochoa‐Hein, Brenda Crabtree‐Ramírez, Arturo Galindo‐Fraga, María de Lourdes Guerrero-Almeida, Guillermo M. Ruiz‐Palacios, Alfonso Gulı́as-Herrero, José Sifuentes‐Osornio, David Kershenobich, Alfredo Ponce‐de‐León,

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Background: Regional information regarding the characteristics of patients with coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 is needed for a better understanding of the pandemic.Objective: The objective of the study to describe the clinical features of COVID-19 patients diagnosed in a tertiary-care center in Mexico City and to assess differences according to the treatment setting (ambulatory vs. hospital) and to the need of intensive care (IC).Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort, including consecutive