COVID-19 vaccination status and treatment outcome: An observational study in a dedicated COVID Hospital of North East India
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18231/j.pjms.2023.067Keywords:
Covid-19 Vaccination, Treatment outcome, Northeast IndiaAbstract
Background: Vaccination has been recommended to curve the COVID-19 pandemic. Associations of death among COVID-19 patients with their COVID-19 vaccination status and various co-morbidities are ill understood.
Tocompare the proportions of death between COVID-19 vaccinated and un-vaccinated and to determine the association of vaccination status and selected co-morbidities with death among COVID-19 patients treated in the DCH of Tripura.
Materials and Methods : This secondary data based cross-sectional study was conducted in the DCH of Agartala Government Medical College using medical records of 2354 COVID-19 patients treated during second and third quarters of 2021, chosen by simple random sampling. A pre-designed proforma was used to extract data regarding demographics, vaccination status, co-morbidities, vitals, treatment outcome etc. from the case-sheets. Binary regression model was utilized for predicting the probability of death due to COVID-19 using important predictor variables.
