TABLE 1.

Characteristics of suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients at the emergency department (propensity score matched)

	Home monitoring	No home monitoring	p-value
Patients	55	110
Age years	61 (45–69)	59 (46–70)	0.909
Female	27 (49)	53 (48)	0.912
Medical history
Charlson comorbidity index	3 (1–6)	3 (1–5)	0.989
Hypertension	22 (40)	36 (33)	0.356
Diabetes mellitus	4 (7)	6 (5)	0.733
Coronary heart disease	0 (0)	13 (12)	0.005
COPD	8 (15)	13 (12)	0.620
Malignancy	17 (31)	40 (36)	0.487
Chronic kidney disease	6 (11)	12 (11)	1.000
Immunocompromised	23 (42)	44 (40)	0.823
COVID-19 diagnostics
Nasopharyngeal swabs	44 (80)	85 (77)	0.689
CT scan	18 (33)	35 (32)	1.000
Underwent COVID-19 diagnostics	46 (84)	90 (82)	0.772
COVID-19 outcomes
Nasopharyngeal swab positive	13 (24)	7 (6)	0.002
CO-RADS ≥4	8 (15)	3 (3)	0.004
Confirmed COVID-19	16 (29)	9 (8)	<0.001
Primary outcomes
Hospital admission (total)	5 (9)	30 (27)	0.007
Short stay admission	0 (0)	25 (23)	<0.001
Length of home monitoring days	4 (3–7)
Secondary outcomes
Stayed at home	47 (85)	76 (69)	0.023
Bed occupancy days per 100 patients	20	47

Data are presented as n, median (interquartile range) or n (%), unless otherwise stated. CT: computed tomography; CO-RADS: COVID-19 Reporting and Data System.