Yun Feng, Yun Ling, Tao Bai, Yusang Xie, Jie Huang, Jian Li, Weining Xiong, Dexiang Yang, Rong Chen, Fangying Lu, Yunfei Lu, Xuhui Liu, Yuqing Chen, Xin Li, Yong Li, Hanssa Dwarka Summah, Huihuang Lin, Jiayang Yan, Min Zhou, Hongzhou Lu, Jieming Qu
Rationale: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is now a global health concern. Objectives: We compared the clinical characteristics, laboratory examinations, computed tomography images, and treatments of patients with COVID-19 from three different cities in China. Methods: A total of 476 patients were recruited from January 1, 2020, to February 15, 2020, at three hospitals in Wuhan, Shanghai, and Anhui. The patients were divided into four groups according to age and into three groups (moderate, severe, and critical) according to the fifth edition of the Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of China...
June 1, 2020: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine