This global network study, which included more than 34,000 COVID-19 patients from across three continents, is intended to provide greater detail about the characteristics of patients suffering from the disease, and also to help inform decision-making around the care of hospitalized patients.
The study "Deep phenotyping of 34,128 adult patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in an international network study" was published on 6 October by Nature Communications.
Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more typically male in the US and Spain, but more often female in South Korea. The ages of patients varied, but in Spain and the US, the most common age groups were between 60 to 75. Patients hospitalised with influenza were typically older than those hospitalized with COVID-19, and more likely to be female.