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Gaceta médica de México

On-line version ISSN 2696-1288Print version ISSN 0016-3813

Abstract

ARCE-SALINAS, César A. et al. COVID-19 epidemiology in a Mexican tertiary care hospital. Gac. Méd. Méx [online]. 2021, vol.157, n.3, pp.267-272.  Epub Sep 13, 2021. ISSN 2696-1288.  https://doi.org/10.24875/gmm.20000776.

Introduction:

As a result of COVID-19, many hospitals underwent a conversion for the care for this disease

Objective:

To analyze COVID-19 hospital epidemiological behavior from March to August 2020.

Methods:

Through a series of cases, COVID-19 epidemiological behavior at the hospital was analyzed, for which simple case rates, percentages and incidence of COVID-19 per 100 hospital discharges were estimated.

Results:

Out of 491 subjects who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, 156 (31.7 %) were hospitalized for clinical data of moderate to severe disease. Average age was 59.1 years; 121 cases (75 %) were discharged due to improvement, and 32 (20.5 %), due to death. Average age of those who died was 69.7 years, and the most affected age group was 60 to 80 years (45.4 %). Calculated lethality was 20.5 per 100 hospital discharges, while that calculated taking into account positive patients (outpatients and hospitalized patients) was 6.5.

Conclusions:

COVID-19 epidemiological behavior was similar to that described in other studies; however, lethality and mortality are above national average. The analysis of this and of the factors that favored it in our population is pending.

Keywords : COVID-19; Mortality; Lethality; Mexico; Hospitalización.

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