Basrah experience among 6404 patients with COVID-19
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Abstract
Background
The first case of COVID-19 report in Basrah was in early March 2020. This study aimed to assess some of the characteristics of patients with COVID-19 in Basrah for the period from March, 4 th to September, 8 th 2020.
Methods
Retrospective database analysis of the University of Basrah database. All RT-PCR positive patients during the study period were enrolled.
Results
Of 6404 patients included, male constituted 54.8%. Healthcare workers constituted 11.4% of the infected people. Of health care workers 16.1% were physicians. The mean age for the whole cohort was 39±16.7 years; adolescents and children younger than 20 years constituted 12.4%. The peak age was 31-40 years, those aged 61 years or more constituted 9.8% only. The case fatality rate was 3% (males 55.2% and females 44.8%). No death was reported in adolescents or children. The highest death rate was among those age 61 years or more.
Conclusion
The situation of COVID-19 infection in Basrah, Iraq is evolving like other countries. Furthers studies are needed to assess associated comorbidities, treatment lines, outcomes and variables associated with mortality.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.19.20215384: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IACUC: The study was approved by the ethical committee of Basrah University. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:The case fatality was very low in Saudi Arabia of around 0.2% and in outher countries ranging 2.7-7%% according to the disease waves.(17, 18) Study limitation: We …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.19.20215384: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IACUC: The study was approved by the ethical committee of Basrah University. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:The case fatality was very low in Saudi Arabia of around 0.2% and in outher countries ranging 2.7-7%% according to the disease waves.(17, 18) Study limitation: We think that the prevalence of COVID-19 infection is underestimated due to multiple factors, such as: Majority of people with symptoms compatible with COVID-19, do not undergo RT-PCR testing, majority of mild to moderate cases were treated in the private sector without RT-PCR testing. Beside that a lot of death at home were not labeled as COVID-19 because no tests have been done. Comorbidities and smoking status were not studied in this report and it will the project for future work.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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