Risk Factors and Prognostic Retrospective Study of COVID-19 Morbidity among OPD Patients at Saraburi Hospital’s Triage Center : A 14-Day Post Diagnosis Study

Abstract

Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak, the number of the SARs-CoV2-patients have been rapidly increasing, resulting in delayed treatments of many patients from inadequate medical resources. The more patients with delayed treatment, the more increasing risk of severe respiratory syndrome. To effectively distribute of medical resources, risk factors contributing to the severity are necessary to be assessed. This study’s objectives were to examine the incidence of morbidity and factors related to the morbidity of the 2019 coronavirus disease patients who come to receive services at the Comprehensive Covid Detection and Sorting Center, Saraburi. The retrospective cohort collected data from The Saraburi One-stop COVID Screening & Triage Center between 23 August 2021 to 5 September 2021. The incident rate of morbid patients was only obtained during 14 days after diagnosis. Multivariable Cox proportional-hazard regression was used to determine risk factors of morbidity, P-value ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

The result of this study showed that a total of 1,026 SAR-CoV2 infected patients who received services from The Saraburi One-stop COVID Screening & Triage Center between 23 August 2021 to 5 September 2021. The prevalence of morbidity is 111 cases, representing a morbidity rate of 0.01 person/person-day. There was no mortality during the time of this study. The risk factors of morbidity were those aged over 60 (Hazard ratio=2.05, p-value=0.004), diabetes (Hazard ratio=2.11, p-value=0.011) and breathlessness/pleuritic chest pain (Hazard ratio=2.55, p-value<0.001.