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. 2020 Nov 26;82(3):e38–e41. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.11.024

Table 2.

Clinical outcomes of patients with and without SARS-CoV-2 RNAemia.

Variables N (%) N=72 patients ORa P-valueb
With viremia (N=11) Without viremia (N=61)
ARDS 6 (54.5%) 6 (9.8%) 11.0 (2.563–47.112) 0.001
IMV 4 (36.4%) 4 (6.6%) 8.143 (1.656–40.041) 0.018
Multiple organ failure 1 (9.1%) 0 (0%) 0.141 (0.079–0.250) 0.331
ICU admission 5 (45.5%) 5 (8.2%) 9.33 (2.086–41.765) 0.005
Length of stayDays, median (IQR) 5 (0–19) 6 (2.5–11) [..] 0.440
Mortality 4 (36.4%) 3 (4.9%) 11.048 (2.039–59.868) 0.007
Unfavourable outcome (ICU admission and/or death) 7 (63.6) 8 (13.1) 11.59 (2.76–48.73) 0.001

ARDS: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; IMV: invasive mechanical ventilation; ICU: Intensive Care Unit. aRisk estimation from Chi-squared test, Student´s t-test and U-value from the Mann-Whitney´s test. 95% confidence intervals, according to indication, appear in parentheses. bTwo-tailed test.