Publications by authors named "Geovani Moreno Santos Junior"
Article Synopsis
- The COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant health concerns globally, making it essential to understand its clinical and epidemiological traits to inform control strategies.
- A study in northeastern Brazil analyzed 115 severely ill COVID-19 patients in an ICU, revealing common symptoms such as dyspnea and cough, with many patients having multiple comorbidities, particularly hypertension.
- Notably, having two or more comorbidities and lower platelet counts were associated with higher mortality, while cough emerged as a surprising protective factor against death.
Objective: Describe the expenditure resulting from hospitalizations for clinical treatment of users diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Unified Health System (SUS) between February and December 2020.
Methods: This is a descriptive study based on data from the Hospital Information System about government expenditure on hospitalizations for clinical treatment of users diagnosed with COVID-19 and causes included in the ICD-10 chapters. We obtained the number of hospitalizations, average length of stay, lethality rate, and total expenditure considering hospital services, professional services and average expenditure per hospitalization.