[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic prescribing in patients with COVID-19: rapid review and meta-analysis

BJ Langford, M So, S Raybardhan, V Leung… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The proportion of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 that are prescribed
antibiotics is uncertain, and may contribute to patient harm and global antibiotic resistance …

Biomarkers and outcomes of COVID-19 hospitalisations: systematic review and meta-analysis

P Malik, U Patel, D Mehta, N Patel, R Kelkar… - BMJ evidence-based …, 2021 - ebm.bmj.com
Objective To evaluate association between biomarkers and outcomes in COVID-19
hospitalised patients. COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge. Biomarkers have always …

Demographic risk factors for COVID-19 infection, severity, ICU admission and death: a meta-analysis of 59 studies

BG Pijls, S Jolani, A Atherley, RT Derckx, JIR Dijkstra… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective We aimed to describe the associations of age and sex with the risk of COVID-19 in
different severity stages ranging from infection to death. Design Systematic review and meta …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic factors for severity and mortality in patients infected with COVID-19: A systematic review

A Izcovich, MA Ragusa, F Tortosa, MA Lavena Marzio… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background and purpose The objective of our systematic review is to identify prognostic
factors that may be used in decision-making related to the care of patients infected with …

[HTML][HTML] The systemic inflammation index on admission predicts in-hospital mortality in COVID-19 patients

AG Fois, P Paliogiannis, V Scano, S Cau, S Babudieri… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Background. The rapid onset of a systemic pro-inflammatory state followed by acute
respiratory distress syndrome is the leading cause of mortality in patients with COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of age, sex, comorbidities and clinical symptoms on the severity of COVID-19 cases: A meta-analysis with 55 studies and 10014 cases

MA Barek, MA Aziz, MS Islam - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Purpose Severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cases are overgrowing
globally and now become a pandemic. A meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with disease severity and mortality among patients with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis

V Chidambaram, NL Tun, WZ Haque, MG Majella… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Understanding the factors associated with disease severity and mortality in
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is imperative to effectively triage patients. We performed a …

Effect of cancer on clinical outcomes of patients with COVID-19: a meta-analysis of patient data

VG Giannakoulis, E Papoutsi, II Siempos - JCO global oncology, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Whether cancer is associated with worse prognosis among patients with COVID-
19 is unknown. We aimed to quantify the effect (if any) of the presence as opposed to …

Effect of increased BMI and obesity on the outcome of COVID-19 adult patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

AY Soeroto, NN Soetedjo, A Purwiga, P Santoso… - Diabetes & Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aims Corona virus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread rapidly.
Growing evidences that overweight and obesity which extent nearly a third of the world …

[HTML][HTML] Lymphopenia and neutrophilia at admission predicts severity and mortality in patients with COVID-19: a meta-analysis

BM Henry, I Cheruiyot, J Vikse, V Mutua… - Acta Bio Medica …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: There is a compelling need to identify clinical and laboratory predictors of
unfavorable clinical course and death in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A …