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A RETEROSPECTIVE CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY FOR THE MORTALITY RATE AMONG COVID-19 PATIENTS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL; A SINGLE CENTRAL STUDY
Objective/Background: To calculate the survival and mortality rates among patients with COVID-19 pandemic.
Methodology: A single central retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 993 patients of COVID-19 from Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital, Gujrat, Pakistan. Retrospective data was collected using patients reports of duration March, 2020 to January, 2022 from admitted patients of COVID-19 that were isolated in tertiary care hospital. All data was entered and analyzed in SPSS (Version 24.00). P-value ≤0.05 was considered as significant value.
Results: Total patients (993) of COVID-19 with average age 44.30±20.24 years from which 547 (55.09%) were male. Out of 993 COVID-19 patients, 507 (51.10%), 243 (24.50%), 193(19.40%), 30(3.00%) and 20 (2.00%) were selected from 1st, 2nd ,3rd, 4th and 5th waves of pandemic COVID-19 from which mortalities were observed 394 (77.70%), 137 (56.30%), 38 (19.60%), 4 (13.30%) and 1 (5.00%) respectively, which were statistically significant with p-value <0.001 . From all patients, 70% (693) were with any comorbidity and overall survival rate was observed 419 (42.20%). Association of survival rate with vaccination status and waves of disease was found statistically significant with P-value <0.001.
Conclusion: Survival rate was higher in the 3rd, 4th, 5th waves than 1st, 2nd due to vaccination, whereas morbidity rate was observed high in patients with any comorbidity and patient’s age >40 years.
Keywords: Retrospective study, case series study, COVID-19, survival rate, isolation