Cristina García-Marichal, Manuel Francisco Aguilar-Jerez, Luciano Jonathan Delgado-Plasencia, Onán Pérez-Hernández, José Fernando Armas-González, Ricardo Pelazas-González, Candelaria Martín-González
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Abstract
Background: Most patients with mild or moderate COVID infection did not require hospital admission, but depending on their personal history, they needed medical supervision. In monitoring these patients in primary care, the design of specific surveillance programs was of great help. Between February 2021 and March 2022, EDCO program was designed in Tenerife, Spain, to telemonitor patients with COVID infection who had at least one vulnerability factor to reduce hospital admissions and mortality.
Objective: The aim of this study is to describe the clinical course of patients included in the EDCO program and to analyze which factors were associated with a higher probability of hospital admission and mortality.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Patients: We included 3848 patients with a COVID-19 infection age over 60 years old or age over 18 years and at least one vulnerability factor previously reported in medical history.
Main measures: Primary outcome was to assess risk of admission or mortality.
Key results: 278 (7.2%) patients required hospital admission. Relative risks (RR) of hospital admission were oxygen saturation ≤ 92% (RR: 90.91 (58.82-142.86)), respiratory rate ≥ 22 breaths per minute (RR: 20.41 (1.19-34.48), obesity (RR: 1.53 (1.12-2.10), chronic kidney disease (RR:2.31 (1.23-4.35), ≥ 60 years of age (RR: 1.44 (1.04-1.99). Mortality rate was 0.7% (27 patients). Relative risks of mortality were respiratory rate ≥ 22 breaths per minute (RR: 24.85 (11.15-55.38), patients with three or more vulnerability factors (RR: 4.10 (1.62-10.38), oxygen saturation ≤ 92% (RR: 4.69 (1.70-15.15), chronic respiratory disease (RR: 3.32 (1.43-7.69) and active malignancy (RR: 4.00 (1.42-11.23).
Conclusions: Vulnerable patients followed by a primary care programme had admission rates of 7.2% and mortality rates of 0.7%. Supervision of vulnerable patients by a Primary Care team was effective in the follow-up of these patients with complete resolution of symptoms in 91.7% of the cases.
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The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. It promotes improved patient care, research, and education in primary care, general internal medicine, and hospital medicine. Its articles focus on topics such as clinical medicine, epidemiology, prevention, health care delivery, curriculum development, and numerous other non-traditional themes, in addition to classic clinical research on problems in internal medicine.
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