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Older age and frailty are the chief predictors of mortality in COVID-19 patients admitted to an acute medical unit in a secondary care setting- A cohort study

2020-09-03

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background </bold>There is a need for more observational studies across different clinical settings to better understand the epidemiology of the novel COVID-19 infection. Evidence on clinical characteristics of COVID-19 infection is scarce in secondary care settings in Western populations.<bold>Methods </bold>We describe the clinical characteristics of all consecutive COVID-19 pos...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-35710/v3

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