U07.1
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection by PCR diagnosis from nasopharynx, oropharynx, bronchoalveolar lavage, stool, or blood. Rapid tests are an acceptable alternative.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection without basic medical information including an initial blood sample and/or without any follow-up data.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To identify independent predictors of outcome in patients with diagnosed infection by SARS-CoV-2. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) To assess the incidence of complicated and critical infection by SARS-CoV-2 2) To assess potential risk factors of complicated and critical infection by SARS-CoV-2 3) To assess clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection (descriptive) 4) Assessment of the temporal relationship between the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death 5) Assessment of regional differences in management and clinical outcome (descriptive) 6) Monitoring different trends over time (symptoms, incidence) (descriptive) 7) Estimation of direct health care costs based on length of stay, time on ICU, time with mechanical ventilation, time on ECMO (descriptive) 8) Cost utilization based on coded DRG and reimbursement (descriptive) 9) Assessment of the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and the health economic burden in terms of direct treatment costs incurred during hospitalization (descriptive) 10) To describe the clinical pattern of disease: Sequence and reversibility of symptoms (descriptive), sequence of radiographic imaging findings (descriptive), sequence of laboratory lab results and patterns of disease severity (descriptive, multivariable binary logistic regression model), sequence of virus detection and quantity in various bodily fluids and samples (descriptive), immunological / inflammatory features of severe infection (descriptive, multivariable binary logistic regression model) | — |
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
Contacts
University Hospital of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department I for Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany