Pseudo-safety in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 discharged home from the emergency department.
Neal YuanHongwei JiNancy SunPatrick BottingTrevor NguyenSam TorbatiSusan C ChengJoseph EbingerPublished in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2021)
Patients infected with COVID-19 may appear clinically safe for home convalescence. However, those with hypertension, diabetes, chronic lung disease and fever may in fact be only 'pseudo-safe' and are most at risk for subsequent hospitalisation with more severe illness and longer hospital stays.
Keyphrases
- emergency department
- healthcare
- end stage renal disease
- coronavirus disease
- ejection fraction
- type diabetes
- sars cov
- newly diagnosed
- blood pressure
- chronic kidney disease
- cardiovascular disease
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- early onset
- adverse drug
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- insulin resistance
- acute care