Table 5.
Clinical characteristics of patients with two types of nursing and healthcare-associated pneumonia and community-acquired pneumonia due to COVID-19.
| Variables | Mental hospital (MH) | Nursing and healthcare-associated pneumonia (NHCAP)a | Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) |
p value MH vs NHCAP |
p value MH vs CAP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of patients | 32 | 122 | 682 | ||
| Median age (IQR), years | 65 (56–73) | 79 (70–84) | 62 (44–72) | <0.0001 | 0.1563 |
| No. of males/females | 22/10 | 71/51 | 445/237 | 0.3152 | 0.8495 |
| No. (%) of patients with comorbid illnesses | 12 (37.5) | 110 (90.2) | 367 (53.8) | <0.0001 | 0.1015 |
| No. (%) of patients with each pneumonia severity score | |||||
| 0 | 1 (3.1) | 2 (1.6) | 251 (36.8) | 0.5054 | <0.0001 |
| 1 | 18 (56.3) | 30 (24.6) | 215 (31.5) | <0.0001 | 0.0060 |
| 2 | 7 (21.9) | 54 (44.3) | 137 (20.1) | 0.0254 | 0.8218 |
| 3 | 6 (18.8) | 36 (29.5) | 66 (9.7) | 0.2700 | 0.1233 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 (1.3) | >0.9999 | >0.9999 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0.6) | >0.9999 | >0.9999 |
| No. (%) of patients admitted to intensive care unit | 17 (53.1) | 75 (61.5) | 240 (35.2) | 0.4225 | 0.0575 |
| No. (%) of patients with in-hospital mortality | 3 (9.4) | 28 (23.0) | 16 (2.3) | 0.1351 | 0.0486 |
Continuous values are presented as medians and interquartile ranges (IQRs) and categorical/binary values as counts and percentages.
a
Excluding mental hospital.