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A comparison of clinical outcomes between vaccinated and vaccine-naive patients of COVID-19, in four tertiary care hospitals of Kerala, South India

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Clin Epidemiol Glob Health

Source : Clin Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022;13:100971.

Url : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35075439/

Campus : Kochi

School : School of Dentistry, School of Medicine

Department : Public Health Dentistry

Year : 2022

Abstract : The problem considered: This multi-centric study analyzed data of COVID-19 patients and compared differences in symptomatology, management, and outcomes between vaccinated and vaccine-naive patients. Methods: All COVID-19 positive individuals treated as an in-or out-patient from the 1stMarch to 15th May 2021 in four selected study sites were considered for the study. Treatment details, symptoms, and clinical course were obtained from hospital records. Chi-square was used to test the association of socio-demographic and treatment variables with the vaccination status and binary logistic regression were used to obtain the odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval. Results: The analysis was of 1446 patients after exclusion of 156 with missing data of which males were 57.3% and females 42.7%. 346 were vaccinated; 189 received one dose and 157 both doses. Hospitalization was more in vaccinated (38.2% vs 27.4%); ICU admissions were less in vaccinated (3.5% vs 7.1%). More vaccinated were symptomatic (OR = 1.5); half less likely to be on non-invasive ventilation (OR = 0.5) while vaccine naive patients had 4.21 times the risk of death. Conclusion: Severe infection, duration of hospital stays, need for ventilation and death were significantly less among vaccinated when compared with vaccine naive patients.

Cite this Research Publication : Balachandran S, Moni M, Sathyapalan DT, Varghese P, Jose MP, Murugan MR, Rajan C, Saboo D, Nair SS, Varkey RA, Balachandran P, Menon GR, Vasudevan BK, Banerjee A, Janakiram C, Menon JC. A comparison of clinical outcomes between vaccinated and vaccine-naive patients of COVID-19, in four tertiary care hospitals of Kerala, South India. Clin Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022 Jan-Feb;13:100971. doi: 10.1016/j.cegh.2022.100971. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 35075439; PMCID: PMC8769674.

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