• BMJ open · Nov 2020

    Characteristics, complications and outcomes among 1549 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a secondary hospital in Madrid, Spain: a retrospective case series study.

    • Eva Jiménez, Mario Fontán-Vela, Jorge Valencia, Ines Fernandez-Jimenez, Elena Alba Álvaro-Alonso, Elsa Izquierdo-García, Andrea Lazaro Cebas, Elisa Gallego Ruiz-Elvira, Jesús Troya, Ana Josefa Tebar-Martinez, Belén Garcia-Marina, Gabriela Peña-Lillo, Ane Abad-Motos, Laura Macaya, Pablo Ryan, Mario Pérez-Butragueño, and COVID@HUIL Working Group.
    • Preventive Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain ejgonzalezbuitrago@salud.madrid.org.
    • BMJ Open. 2020 Nov 10; 10 (11): e042398.

    ObjectivesTo describe demographic, clinical, radiological and laboratory characteristics, as well as outcomes, of patients admitted for COVID-19 in a secondary hospital.Design And SettingRetrospective case series of sequentially hospitalised patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2, at Infanta Leonor University Hospital (ILUH) in Madrid, Spain.ParticipantsAll patients attended at ILUH testing positive to reverse transcriptase-PCR on nasopharyngeal swabs and diagnosed with COVID-19 between 1 March 2020 and 28 May 2020.ResultsA total of 1549 COVID-19 cases were included (median age 69 years (IQR 55.0-81.0), 57.5% men). 78.2% had at least one underlying comorbidity, the most frequent was hypertension (55.8%). Most frequent symptoms at presentation were fever (75.3%), cough (65.7%) and dyspnoea (58.1%). 81 (5.8%) patients were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) (median age 62 years (IQR 51-71); 74.1% men; median length of stay 9 days (IQR 5-19)) 82.7% of them needed invasive ventilation support. 1393 patients had an outcome at the end of the study period (case fatality ratio: 21.2% (296/1393)). The independent factors associated with fatality (OR; 95% CI): age (1.07; 1.06 to 1.09), male sex (2.86; 1.85 to 4.50), neurological disease (1.93; 1.19 to 3.13), chronic kidney disease (2.83; 1.40 to 5.71) and neoplasia (4.29; 2.40 to 7.67). The percentage of hospital beds occupied with COVID-19 almost doubled (702/361), with the number of patients in ICU quadrupling its capacity (32/8). Median length of stay was 9 days (IQR 6-14).ConclusionsThis study provides clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 admitted to a European secondary hospital. Fatal outcomes were similar to those reported by hospitals with a higher level of complexity.© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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