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Clinical features of COVID-19 mortality: development and validation of a clinical prediction model
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of individuals and caused hundreds of thousands of
deaths worldwide. Predicting mortality among patients with COVID-19 who present with a spectrum of complications
is ...
Extent of prior lung irradiation and mortality in COVID-19 patients with a cancer history
Purpose: There have been nearly 200,000 deaths worldwide so far from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by a
coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Cancer history appears to be a poor prognostic factor for ...
Monitoring the mortality impact of COVID-19 in Europe: What can be learned from 2009 influenza H1N1p mortality studies?
Objectives: Understanding the proportion of pandemic deaths captured as “laboratoryconfirmed” deaths is crucial. We assessed the ability of laboratory-confirmed deaths to
capture mortality in the EU during the 2009 pandemic, ...
The risk and prognosis of COVID-19 infection in cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Numerous studies have been published regarding outcomes of cancer patients infected with
the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus causing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. ...
Hypokalemia as a sensitive biomarker of disease severity and invasive mechanical ventilation requirement in COVID-19 pneumonia: a case series of 306 Mediterranean patients
Objectives Serum levels of potassium (K+) seem significantly lower in severe SARS-CoV2 infection, with an unknown clinical translation. The objective was to investigate
whether hypokalemia acts as a biomarker of severity ...
Evaluating the massive underreporting and undertesting of COVID-19 cases in multiple global epicenters
Background: With continuous global COVID-19 outbreak, differing case numbers and mortality
rates are observed. While actual case numbers appear vague, mortality numbers related to
COVID-19 seem more precise. In this ...
Outcomes of persons with COVID-19 in hospitals with and without standard treatment with (Hydroxy)chloroquine
Objective
To compare survival of subjects with COVID-19 treated in hospitals that either did or did not routinely treat patients with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine.
Methods
We analysed data of COVID-19 patients ...