Study configuration and patients
Retrospective analysis of a single center cohort of hospitalized
COVID-19 patients. A computer-based search of all patients who were
hospitalized in Shaare Zedek medical center in Jerusalem during the
period of 1/2/2020 – 30/5/2020 (including those admitted to regular
corona departments as well as those admitted or transferred to corona
intensive care unit) with nasopharyngeal swab PCR positive for severe
acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov -2), who were at the
age of ≥18 years old at the day of admission. Notably, the research
period represents the period of the first COVID-19 outbreak in Israel.