In-Hospital Death Due to COVID-19 Disease in Iranian Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Study

Autor: Mostafa Ghanei, Seyed Hassan Saadat, Mohammad Gholami Fesharaki, Alireza Najimi-Varzaneh
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: Context: The prevalence of in-hospital death due to COVID-19 hospital is one of the qualitative indexes, which can be used to assess the quality of care, as well as the mortality patterns in COVID-19 pandemic.Objectives: Therefore, this systematic and meta-analysis study has been done with the aim of estimating overall prevalence in-hospital death due to COVID-19 disease in iranian patients Evidence Acquisition: Articles were identified through international searching databases including PubMed, Scopus, Elsevier, Google Scholar, and Web of Science and Iranian scientific information database (SID), Health.barakatkns, IranDoc, Civilica and MagIran. We reviewed systematically all studies reporting the prevalence of in-hospital death due to COVID-19 disease. In this study meta-analysis method with random effect model has been used to estimate the pooled prevalence. Results: 118 records were identified by the electronic search, of which 43 studies were identified as relevant papers that were meta-analyzed for the pooled in-hospital death due to COVID-19 prevalence. Overall, prevalence of death were 12.16% (95% CI: 10.72%-13.61%). The highest and lowest death prevalence has been reported in Northern Provinces (Gilan, 27.27% (95% CI: 8.66%-45.88%) and Mazandaran, 21.27% (95% CI: 18.14%-24.40%)) and Turkish-speaking provinces (Azerbaijan, East, 3.29% (95% CI: 2.11%-4.47%) and Zanjan, 3.42% (95% CI: 1.82%-5.02%)) respectively. Conclusions: Considering the death rate obtained in this study and its comparison with other countries, it can be said that the performance of the Iranian medical system in COVID-19 pandemic is acceptable.
Databáze: OpenAIRE