Treatment Outline and Clinical Outcome of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Experiences from a Combined Military Hospital of Bangladesh
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Abstract
Background
Global knowledge of treatment and outcomes of COVID-19 has been evolving since the onset of the pandemic.
Materials and Methods
The objective of this cross-sectional study was to explore treatment and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted in a Combined Military Hospital of Bangladesh. Data were collected from treatment records of patients of the CMH Bogura during the period of June 2020 to August 2020. Total 219 RT-PCR positive admitted patients were included as study population.
Result
Among 219 patients, 78.6% were male and 21.5% were female, mean age of patients was 34.3 ± 12.2. About14.6% patients had one or more comorbidities. Most (83.1%) of the admitted patients were diagnosed as mild cases. Antimicrobials were used in 98.8% cases, and frequent use of doxycycline (80.4%) and ivermectine (77.2%) was found. Anticoagulant and steroid therapy were used in 42.0% and 15.5% patients respectively. O 2 therapy was required in 6.0% cases and intensive care unit (ICU) support was needed in 2.3% cases.Duration of hospital stay was 12.1± 4.4 days and 100% of patients were discharged from hospital. There was no single mortality during the study period.
Conclusion
High prevalence of antimicrobials use was observed among the hospitalized COVID-19 patients in this single center study.Supportive care was effective with no incidence of mortality.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.03.01.22271740: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Ethical approval was taken from Institutional Review Board (IRB) of CMH Bogura. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Data was compiled, presented and analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2007, and was expressed as percentage. Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this …SciScore for 10.1101/2022.03.01.22271740: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Ethical approval was taken from Institutional Review Board (IRB) of CMH Bogura. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Data was compiled, presented and analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2007, and was expressed as percentage. Microsoft Excelsuggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.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.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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