Survival and Mortality in Hospitalized Children with COVID-19: A Referral Center Experience in Yazd, Iran
Farimah Shamsi, Mehran Karimi, Zahra Nafei, Elahe Akbarian
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, doi:10.1155/2023/5205188
Introduction. COVID-19 prognostic risk factors, therapeutic protocols, and clinical outcomes in pediatric cases are still under investigation. Materials and Methods. Tis historical cohort study evaluated the survival time of hospitalized children (1 month-18 years old) with COVID-19 admitted from March 2020 to August 2021 to an educational hospital in Yazd, Iran. Te follow-up of patients was performed at least one month after discharge. Results. From 183 hospitalized cases, 24 children were deceased. Te median age of patients was 5.41, and 54.2% were male. Te survival rate after one-month follow-up was 0.88, and the most signifcant predictors associated with survival time were the male sex, positive history of hospitalization, lymphopenia, hypoxia, and length of stay more than two weeks using Bayesian Cox regression analysis. Conclusion. Accurate estimation of the impact of predictors on poor outcomes may help healthcare providers use therapeutic protocols based on risk factors and healthcare requirements of each patient to improve their survival.
Conflicts of Interest Te authors declare that they have no conficts of interest.
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