Clinical Course of COVID-19 Patients according to hematological
findings
A total of 1050 (79.5%) patients recovered during follow-up and were
discharged. Median follow-up time was 7 (1-41) days for those patients
in hospital. Five hundred and five (48.1%) of these patients were able
to be discharged in less than 7 days. Five hundred and forty-five
patients (51.9%) were followed up in the hospital for 7 or more days
and were discharged after a maximum of 41 days. Median age was
statistically significantly higher in patients who stayed longer in the
hospital (p=0.001). The majority of the patients who were hospitalized
for shorter periods consisted of women, while the proportions of both
sexes were almost equal in longer hospitalization periods. The
hemoglobin and thrombocyte level at the time of admission were
statistically significantly higher in patients who were discharged in
<7 days than in patients who were discharged in ≥7 days. The
leukocyte, neutrophil, monocyte, eosinophile, basophile and ferritin
values at the time of admission were statistically significantly lower
in patients who were discharged in <7 days than in patients
who were discharged in ≥7 days (Table 2).
After univariate analysis, among the factors that had p value
<0.05 were taken to multivariate analysis. In multivariate
analysis, age (p<0.001) and platelet counts (p=0.001) at the
admission time were found to be independent factors related with
hospitalization for a longer period of time.
Table 2. The comparison of hematological parameters of patients
at the time of admission according to hospitalization time