id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-333582-l2coget2 Giacomelli, A. 30-day mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the Italian epidemic: a prospective cohort study 2020-05-06 .txt text/plain 3043 219 62 Methods: This prospective cohort study of the correlates of the risk of death in COVID-19 patients was conducted at the Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care units of Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy. The clinical characteristics of all the COVID-19 patients hospitalised in the early days of the epidemic (21 February -19 March 2020) were recorded upon admission, and the time-dependent probability of death was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier method (censored as of 20 April 2020). The data extracted from the patients' clinical charts on a daily basis and stored in an ad hoc database included age and gender; the reported date of symptom onset; body weight and height, the presence of obesity defined as a body mass index ≥ 30 points [10] , and history of smoking; comorbidity burden defined assessed by age unadjusted Charlson comorbidity index [11] and concomitant treatments for chronic medical conditions; symptoms; vital signs (heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, pulse oximetry), laboratory values (white blood cell, neutrophil, lymphocyte, and platelet counts; hemoglobin, albumin, lactate dehydrogenase, C-reactive protein (CRP), creatine kinase (CK), alanine aminotransferase, bilirubin, prothrombin, D-dimer, and creatinine levels; and arterial oxygen partial pressure); radiography findings upon admission. ./cache/cord-333582-l2coget2.txt ./txt/cord-333582-l2coget2.txt