Table 1 Patient characteristics according to viral infection status
Characteristics | All swabs, n = 1756, excluding n = 8 viral co-infections, p < 0.05 = bold | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PCR-negative swabs | RSV A and B | Influenza A and B | p-value (RSV vs. Influenza) | SARS- CoV-2 | p-value (RSV vs. SARS-CoV-2) | ||
n = 1287 | n = 38 | n = 147 | n = 284 | ||||
Males, n (%) | 716 (55.6) | 22 (57.9) | 78 (53.1) | 0.596 | 171 (60.2) | 0.785 | |
Age, years (median; quartils) | 68 (49;81) | 79 (69;86) | 56 (38;77) | < 0.001 | 79 (63;85) | 0.467 | |
CCI, score (median; quartils) | 1 (0;3) | 2 (1;3) | 1 (0;2) | 0.003 | 1 (0;3) | 0.023 | |
Respiratory Support | |||||||
Oxygen only, n (%) | 476 (37.0) | 24 (63.2) | 50 (34.0) | < 0.001 | 118 (41.5) | 0.012 | |
nHFOT, n (%) | 32 (2.5) | 2 (5.3) | 2 (1.4) | 0.142 | 11 (3.9) | 0.684 | |
NIV, n (%) | 63 (4.9) | 1 (2.6) | 4 (2.7) | 0.976 | 12 (4.2) | 0.640 | |
Invasive ventilation, n (%) | 39 (3.0) | 0 | 4 (2.7) | 0.307 | 3 (1.1) | 0.526 | |
Admission | |||||||
Outpatient, n (%) | 345 (26.8) | 7 (18.4) | 53 (36.1) | 0.039 | 45 (15.8) | 0.686 | |
Inpatient, n (%) | 942 (73.2) | 31 (81.6) | 94 (63.9) | 0.039 | 239 (84.2) | 0.686 | |
ICU-admission, n (%) | 106 (8.2) | 0 | 13 (8.8) | 0.058 | 12 (4.2) | 0.198 | |
Length of stay, only inpatients, days (median; quartils) | 9 (4;16) | 8 (6.5;13) | 8 (4;12) | 0.164 | 7 (4;12) | 0.544 | |
Outcome | |||||||
Death, n (%) | 88 (6.8) | 3 (7.9) | 4 (2.7) | 0.138 | 16 (5.6) | 0.580 | |
Acute cardiac event, n (%) | 253 (19,7) | 12 (31.6) | 13 (8.8) | < 0.001 | 47 (16.5) | 0.024 | |