Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Hospitalized AECOPDs Secondary to SARS-CoV-2 versus Other Respiratory Viruses
In a highly vaccinated population in the Omicron era, COPD patients requiring hospitalisation with SARS-CoV-2 are older with more comorbidities than those admitted with other respiratory viruses. Length of hospitalisation and ICU utilisation was similar. Inpatient mortality may be higher.
Authors
- Martin MacDonald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1138-0590)
- Garun S. Hamilton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1744-2839)
- Louis Chhor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-8194)
- Stefan Saggese
Institutions
- Monash Health (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of COPD
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2147/copd.s479968
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.77
Funders
- European Respiratory Society
- Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand