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. 2022 Jan;52(1):e13705.
doi: 10.1111/eci.13705. Epub 2021 Nov 8.

Clinical predictors of late SARS-CoV-2 positivity in Italian internal medicine wards

Federico Carbone  1   2 , Stefano Ministrini  3   4 , Sara Garbarino  5 , Giulia Vischi  1 , Valeria Carpaneto  1 , Matteo Sobrero  1 , Chiara Monti  1 , Daria De Stefano  1 , Benedetta Saccomanno  1 , Marcella Massone  2 , Luca Liberale  4 , Arianna Piccardo  6 , Alessandro Calvia  6 , Federica Vischi  6 , Maddalena Bagnasco  6 , Ottavia Magnani  7 , Matteo Caiti  7 , Elisabetta Cenni  7 , Paola Ballarino  7 , Patrizia Giuntini  7 , Alessandra Barreca  7 , Chiara Tognoni  7 , Federica Pirisi  7 , Paolo Canepa  7 , Domenico Cerminara  8 , Lisa Pelanconi  8 , Michele Strozzi  8 , Amedeo Thneibat  8 , Mario Stabile  8 , Edineia Felix  8 , Selena Dasso  8 , Cecilia Casini  8 , Alberto Minetti  8 , Roberta Gonella  8   9 , Fabio Ferrando  8   9 , Andrea Bellodi  9 , Alberto Ballestrero  8   9 , Paolo Barbera  10 , Andrea Lorenzo Poggi  10 , Eleonora Arboscello  10 , Aldo Pende  6 , Paolo Moscatelli  7 , Michele Piana  5 , Fabrizio Montecucco  1   2
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Clinical predictors of late SARS-CoV-2 positivity in Italian internal medicine wards

Federico Carbone et al. Eur J Clin Invest. 2022 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; emergency department; ferritin; internal medicine; lactate dehydrogenase; mortality.

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Clinical and biochemical factors influence late SARS‐CoV‐2 positivity in patient admitted in internal medicine ward. Cumulative SARS‐CoV‐2 positivity occurs early after hospital admission: (A) cumulative incidence of positivity after admission to internal medicine wards, not dedicated to SARS‐CoV‐2 (data points represent the day the patients became positive); (B) cumulative incidence of positivity after admission to emergency department (ED) (data points represent the day the patients became positive). Alongside with in‐ED length of stay, clinical and management variables are independently associated with late SARS‐CoV‐2 positivity (C) and even a slightly longer ED permanence is associated with an increased cumulative risk (D). QI‐QIV: quartiles of length of stay in ED
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