To analyze the clinical characteristics of re-positive discharged COVID-19 patients and find distinguishing markers. The demographic features, clinical symptoms, laboratory results, comorbidities, co-infections, treatments, illness severities and chest CT scan results of 267 patients were collected from 1st January to 15th February 2020. COVID-19 was diagnosed by RT-PCR. Clinical symptoms and nucleic acid test results were collected during the 14 days post-hospitalization quarantine. 30 out of 267 COVID-19 patients were detected re-positive during the post-hospitalization quarantine. Re-positive patients could not be distinguished by demographic features, clinical symptoms, laboratory results, comorbidities, co-infections, treatments, chest CT scan results or subsequent clinical symptoms. However, re-positive rate was found to be correlated to illness severity, according the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) severity-of-disease classification system, and the confusion, urea, respiratory rate and blood pressure (CURB-65) score. Common clinical characteristics were not able to distinguish re-positive patients. However, severe and critical cases classified high according APACHE II and CURB-65 scores, were more likely to become re-positive after discharge.
【저자키워드】 Medical research, Risk factors, Signs and symptoms, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19, Clinical symptoms, Clinical characteristics, quarantine, Comorbidities, Symptom, RT-PCR, discharge, Laboratory results, Features, CURB-65, nucleic acid test, clinical, Physiology, Patient, patients, blood pressure, chest CT scan, COVID-19 patient, respiratory rate, APACHE II, Illness severity, chronic, urea, Confusion, Critical case, common, collected, subsequent, diagnosed, correlated, discharged, 【제목키워드】 Characteristics, clinical, Wuhan, China, discharged, COVID-19 pneumonia patient,