Evaluation of clinical outcomes of patients with mild symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) discharged from the emergency department

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 10; p. e0258697
• Main Authors: Bagi, Hamidreza Morteza, Soleimanpour, Maryam, Abdollahi, Fariba, Soleimanpour, Hassan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 21.10.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Admission and discharge; Adult; Blood pressure; Clinical outcomes; Computer viruses; Consent; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - mortality; COVID-19 - psychology; COVID-19 - therapy; Departments; Disease control; Disease transmission; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Emergency service; Emergency Service, Hospital; Fatalities; Female; Fever; Follow-Up Studies; Health Behavior; Hospitals; Households; Humans; Hygiene; Infections; Male; Methods; Middle Aged; Oxygen saturation; Pandemics; Patient Discharge; Patients; Quarantine; Questionnaires; Respiratory diseases; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Signs and symptoms; Standard deviation; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tabulation; Teaching hospitals; Telephone calls; Validity; Viral diseases; Viruses; Vital signs; Iran
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258697

This study was performed to determine the clinical outcomes of patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 discharged from the emergency department. The present descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was performed on 400 patients discharged with a diagnosis of COVID-19 from the emergency departmen...