Bibliographic citations
Narro, K., (2020). Características clínico-epidemiológicas en pacientes con diagnóstico COVID-19. Red de Salud Virú, marzo - mayo 2020 [Tesis, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego - UPAO]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12759/6845
Narro, K., Características clínico-epidemiológicas en pacientes con diagnóstico COVID-19. Red de Salud Virú, marzo - mayo 2020 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego - UPAO; 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12759/6845
@misc{renati/372449,
title = "Características clínico-epidemiológicas en pacientes con diagnóstico COVID-19. Red de Salud Virú, marzo - mayo 2020",
author = "Narro Cornelio, Katherine Mariet",
publisher = "Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego - UPAO",
year = "2020"
}
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19, infectious disease caused by a new type of coronavirus, recently discovered, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), which affects a large number of people in the world. OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical-epidemiological characteristics in patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 from the Virú Health Network from March to May 2020. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The type of study has a quantitative approach and a descriptive observational design with secondary data. The population is made up of all patients diagnosed positive for COVID-19 with molecular tests (nasopharyngeal sample) and serological tests (blood sample). Using the technique of documentation. The established instrument is based on the COVID19 Clinical Epidemiological Investigation Form that was filled out during the patient's clinical consultation. The data was reviewed to identify sociodemographic variables, antecedents and clinical manifestations. In the data processing, dynamic tables were used in Excel and SPSS 26.0 software. RESULTS: 67.7% of COVID-19 cases were found in the Virú Health Network that are in the adult and elderly life periods. There was a predominance of male patients (57.4%) versus female patients (42.6%). The Virú district presented 52.9% of confirmed cases. While the Provincial Hospital of Virú as notifying health establishment presented 52.5% of confirmed cases. The symptoms were: cough (48.7%), general malaise (48.2%), sore throat (39.1%) and fever / chills (37.5%), nasal congestion (22.0%), headache (21.3%) respiratory distress (17.1%) ), muscle pain (12.2%) and chest pain (8.4%). Other symptoms to a lesser extent, nausea / vomiting (5.6%), diarrhea (5.2%), abdominal and joint pain (1.9%). Among the clinical characteristics according to comorbidity, diabetes (3.7%), cardiovascular disease (3.5%), pregnancy (1.9%), chronic lung disease (0.5%), liver disease and cancer predominate (0.2%) respectively.
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