Abstract
This case series characterizes the demographics, health services use, and vital status and discharge dispositions of patients with polymerase chain reaction–confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalized in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health system in March 2020.
MeSH terms
- Aged
- Betacoronavirus*
- COVID-19
- COVID-19 Testing
- California / epidemiology
- Clinical Laboratory Techniques / statistics & numerical data
- Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
- Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
- Coronavirus Infections / mortality
- Coronavirus Infections / therapy
- Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
- Female
- Health Maintenance Organizations / statistics & numerical data
- Hospital Mortality
- Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data*
- Humans
- Intensive Care Units / statistics & numerical data
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / statistics & numerical data
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
- Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
- Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
- Pneumonia, Viral / therapy
- Retrospective Studies
- SARS-CoV-2