How health knowledge that can influence patient outcome

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Nuno Filipe Saraiva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24163
• topic: COVID-19; Mortality risk; Comorbidities; Severity of symptoms; Risco de mortalidade; Comorbilidades; Gravidade de sintomas

Since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, it has killed more than two million people worldwide. Some directly due to complications and symptoms of the virus others due to lack of resources to take care of all the patients affected by it. A proper triage can go a long way to an efficient resource allocation, which makes it extremely relevant to understand which factors can affect Covid-19 complications or mortality risk. With the input form front-line Portuguese doctors, it was possible to identify the main comorbidities and health issues that can influence patient outcome: age, cancer, immunosuppression, transplant, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and kidney, respiratory and cardiovascular disease, body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, glucose, C-protein, D-dimer and PaO2/FiO2 levels.