Response to Treatment Criteria
- Time of improvement in symptoms such as coughs, shortness of breath,
and lethargy
- Improvements in O2 saturation without changes in the
treatment protocol and reductions in the need for O2
- Duration of hospitalization according to the course of symptom
improvement
- Re-admission after discharge
- Serial evaluations of laboratory parameters, consisting of LDH, tumor
necrosis factor-α, interleukin-6, CBC, ESR, and CRP, and comparison of
parameters at hospitalization, during hospitalization, and at
discharge
- Investigation of changes in anti-inflammatory parameters
- Examination of radiological changes at the beginning of
hospitalization and during hospitalization
- Need for ICU admission during hospitalization