Lucas Pereto Silva, Rebecca Benício Stocco, Marcos Roberto Curcio Pereira, Julia Naomi Koga, Isabela Pontarolo Gomes, João Eduardo Carvalho, Giovana Muniz Beni, Paulo Negreiros, Cristina P Baena, Gustavo Lenci Marques
INTRODUCTION: With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous questions have arisen regarding the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of infected patients. Among these, screening infected patients through body temperature measurement has proven ineffective. However, doubts persist regarding the role of fever as a prognostic factor in the disease. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of fever and its relevance as a marker of mortality in COVID-19. METHODOLOGY: This prospective and longitudinal cohort study was conducted between April 2020 and December 2021 and analyzed 1400 COVID-19 patients systematically admitted to the emergency department of a reference hospital during the period from April 2020 to December 2021, in the city of Curitiba, Brazil...
February 2024: Curēus