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. 2021 Jul 28;83(4):473–482. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.07.034

Table 1.

Characteristics of 803 inpatients testing SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive between 17 November 2020 and 5 January 2021 at Oxford University Hospitals.

All patients Nosocomial Community- onset Kruskal Wallis p-value
Total number 803 188 (23%) 615 (77%) NA
SexMale (n;%)Female (n;%) 454 (57%)349 (43%) 109 (58%)79 (42%) 345 (56%)270 (44%) 0.65
Age (median; IQR) 67 (49–81) 76 (62–86) 63 (46–80) < 0.001
Lowest Ct (median; IQR) 20 (14–27) 19 (14–28) 20 (15–27) 0.15
Length of stay before first SARS-CoV-2 positive PCR (median; IQR) 1 (1–3) 9 (5–15) 1 (1–1) < 0.001
Length of stay after first SARS-CoV-2 positive PCR (median; IQR) 6 (2–13) 8 (4–16) 6 (2–11) < 0.001
28 day mortality (n;%) 129 (16%) 43 (23%) 86 (14%) < 0.001
Successfully sequenced (n;%) 503/803 (63%) 116/188 (62%) 387/615 (63%) 0.44