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. 2022 Dec 13;23:342. doi: 10.1186/s12931-022-02265-6

Table 2.

Hospital stay for asthma patients and outcome by disease

COVID-19 patients
n = 402
2018–2019 influenza period patients
n = 309
COVID-19 patients vs 2018–2019 influenza period patients
p value
2017–2018 influenza period patients
n = 283
COVID-19 patients vs 2017–2018 influenza period patients
p value
Total length of hospital stay (days) 14 [7–55] 7 [4–13] < 0.001 8 [5–15] < 0.001
ICU 125 (31) 70 (23) 0.014 59 (21) 0.0028
 Length of ICU stay (days) 10 [4–25] 4 [2–9] < 0.001 4 [2–9] < 0.001
Non-invasive ventilation 74 (18) 64 (21) 0.45 65 (23) 0.15
 In ICU 71/125 (57) 50/70 (71) 0.043 50/59 (85) < 0.001
Invasive ventilation 63 (16) 18 (5.8) < 0.001 18 (6.4) < 0.001
 In ICU 63/125 (50) 18/70 (26) < 0.001 17/59 (29) 0.0058
In-hospital death 73 (18) 9 (2.9) < 0.001 12 (4.2) < 0.001

Data are median [IQR] or n (%)