Pneumonia, gastrointestinal symptoms, comorbidities, and coinfections as factors related to a lengthier hospital stay in children with COVID-19-analysis of a paediatric part of Polish register SARSTer.
Anna ManiaMaria Pokorska-ŚpiewakMagdalena FiglerowiczMałgorzata PawłowskaKatarzyna Mazur-MelewskaKamil FaltinEwa TalarekKonrad ZawadkaAnna DobrzenieckaPrzemysław CiechanowskiJoanna Łasecka-ZadrożnaJózef RudnickiBarbara HasiecMartyna StaniPaulina Frańczak-ChmuraIzabela ZaleskaLeszek SzenbornPaulina HoreckaArtur SulikBarbara SzczepańskaIlona Pałyga-BysieckaIzabela KucharekAdam J SybilskiMałgorzata Sobolewska-PilarczykUrszula DryjaEwa Majda-StanisławskaSławomira NiedźwieckaErnest P KucharBolesław KalickiAnna GorczycaMagdalena MarczyńskaPublished in: Infectious diseases (London, England) (2021)
The clinical course of COVID-19 was mild to moderate in most children. Factors increasing the risk of higher LoHS included pneumonia, gastrointestinal symptoms, comorbidities, an additional diagnosis, and the empirical antibiotic treatment.