Clinical and conceptual comments on "Risk factors of critical & mortal COVID-19 cases: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis"

Affiliations

¹ Theme Lead -Health Profession and Society -Advanced Studies, Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP), College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, CDU Campus, Ellengowan Drive, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia and Department of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Jiangsu, China. Electronic address: Rama.Jayaraj@flinders.edu.au.
² School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia. Electronic address: chellank54@gmail.com.
³ Fellow in Oral oncology, Health care global enterprises Ltd, Bangalore Manipal College of dental sciences, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of higher education. A constituent of MAHE. Electronic address: sameep.shetty@manipal.edu.
⁴ Senior Research Fellow, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: mravishankarram@um.edu.my.
⁵ Department of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Jiangsu, China, and Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia. Electronic address: 100001@nuist.edu.cn.

Comment

Rama Jayaraj et al. J Infect. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;81(4):647-679.

doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.011. Epub 2020 May 11.

¹ Theme Lead -Health Profession and Society -Advanced Studies, Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP), College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, CDU Campus, Ellengowan Drive, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia and Department of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Jiangsu, China. Electronic address: Rama.Jayaraj@flinders.edu.au.
² School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia. Electronic address: chellank54@gmail.com.
³ Fellow in Oral oncology, Health care global enterprises Ltd, Bangalore Manipal College of dental sciences, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of higher education. A constituent of MAHE. Electronic address: sameep.shetty@manipal.edu.
⁴ Senior Research Fellow, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: mravishankarram@um.edu.my.
⁵ Department of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Jiangsu, China, and Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia. Electronic address: 100001@nuist.edu.cn.

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Keywords: Critical & mortal COVID-19; Meta-Analysis; Publication bias.

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Risk factors of critical & mortal COVID-19 cases: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.
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