Table 2.
Outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted in PGH according to nutritional status.
| Malnourished (n = 255) |
Not Malnourished (n = 100) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Length of admission | 17 (10) | 12 (9) | <0.0001 |
| Disposition | <0.001 | ||
| Discharged | 202 (79.22%) | 72 (72.00%) | |
| Readmitted | 20 (9.90%) | 5 (6.94%) | 0.454 |
| Reason | 1.000 | ||
| COVID | 3 (15.00%) | – | |
| NON-COVID | 17 (85.00%) | 5 (100.0%) | |
| Disposition | 1.000 | ||
| Discharged | 14 (70.00%) | 4 (80.00%) | |
| Mortality | 6 (30.00%) | 1 (20.00%) | |
| Mortality | 46 (18.04%) | 7 (7.00%) | |
| Transferred to Quarantine Facility | 7 (2.75%) | 16 (16.00%) | |
| Discharged | 7 (100.0%) | 16 (100.0%) | – |
| Readmitted to another hospital | – | – | |
| Transferred to Hospital of Choice | – | 5 (5.00%) | |
| Discharged | – | 3 (60.00%) | – |
| Transferred | – | 2 (40.00%) | |
| Mortality | – | – | |
| Transferred to ICU | 36 (14.12%) | 2 (2.00%) | 0.001 |
| Days on Mech Vent | 6 (3) | 2 (4) | 0.1873 |
| Days on HFNC | 6 (1.5) | – | – |