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cord-307497-wtfvoifb	Abu-Raya, Bahaa	Predictors of refractory Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia	2020-04-09		.txt	text/plain	511	30	38	In addition, refractory COVID-19 patients were more likely to receive oxygen, mechanical ventilation, expectorant, adjunctive treatment including corticosteroids, antiviral drugs and immune enhancers when compared to general COVID-19 patients. The authors have further attempted to explore predictive factors for refractory COVID-19 using a multivariate analysis showing that male sex, anorexia on admission and being afebrile are independent risk factors for the development of a refractory disease. Furthermore, out of this analysis the authors have found that patients with refractory COVID-19 were more likely to receive oxygen, expectorant, corticosteroids, lopinavir/ritonavir and immune enhancer. In their paper, the authors compared categorical and continuous variables between the two groups of patients and these variables that differed significantly between the two groups were included in the multivariate regression analysis. In their paper, the authors included the treatment introduced at the time of patient admission and/or hospitalization in the multivariate analysis aiming to identify independent risk factors for refractory COVID-19.	./cache/cord-307497-wtfvoifb.txt	./txt/cord-307497-wtfvoifb.txt