Influenza-associated pneumonia as reference to assess seriousness of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Information on severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (transmissibility, disease seriousness, impact) is crucial for preparation of healthcare sectors. We present a simple approach to assess disease seriousness, creating a reference cohort of pneumonia patients from sentinel hospitals. First com...

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Autores principales: Tolksdorf, Kristin, Buda, Silke, Schuler, Ekkehard, Wieler, Lothar H, Haas, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32186278
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.11.2000258
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author Tolksdorf, Kristin
Buda, Silke
Schuler, Ekkehard
Wieler, Lothar H
Haas, Walter
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description Information on severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (transmissibility, disease seriousness, impact) is crucial for preparation of healthcare sectors. We present a simple approach to assess disease seriousness, creating a reference cohort of pneumonia patients from sentinel hospitals. First comparisons exposed a higher rate of COVID-19 patients requiring ventilation. There were more case fatalities among COVID-19 patients without comorbidities than in the reference cohort. Hospitals should prepare for high utilisation of ventilation and intensive care resources.
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spelling pubmed-70967752020-03-26 Influenza-associated pneumonia as reference to assess seriousness of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Tolksdorf, Kristin Buda, Silke Schuler, Ekkehard Wieler, Lothar H Haas, Walter Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Information on severity of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (transmissibility, disease seriousness, impact) is crucial for preparation of healthcare sectors. We present a simple approach to assess disease seriousness, creating a reference cohort of pneumonia patients from sentinel hospitals. First comparisons exposed a higher rate of COVID-19 patients requiring ventilation. There were more case fatalities among COVID-19 patients without comorbidities than in the reference cohort. Hospitals should prepare for high utilisation of ventilation and intensive care resources. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7096775/ /pubmed/32186278 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.11.2000258 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Influenza-associated pneumonia as reference to assess seriousness of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
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