SURVIVAL ANALYSIS OF COVID 19 PATIENTS FROM TWO HOSPITALS IN CIMAHI, INDONESIA Desy Linasari
Department of Community Health Science
Medicine Faculty, Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani, Indonesia
Correspondence email : desy.linasari[at]lecture.unjani.ac.id
Abstract
Abstract - In December 2019 in Wuhan, a mysterious and highly infectious pneumonia case with unknown cause was reported. In February 2020 WHO named the new virus for the cause of the mysterious pneumonia as SARS cov, and the disease was called CoronaVirus disease 2019 (COVID 2019). Nearly all the countries in the world cannot avoid the transmission of covid 19, and covid 19 caused lots of deaths especially in the elderly and in those with the history of comorbidities. This study was conducted to find out the survival probability of patients suffering from covid after the patients were hospitalized for one month in Dustira hospital and RSUD Cibabat. The study design used retrospective cohort study, with data analysis using survival analysis employing life table and Kaplan Meier. From the clinical symptoms it was found that the most complaints were among others fever, cough, throat pain, throws up, and anosmia with 88,1%, 85,1%, 50,6%, 56,5% and 26,2 % respectively. Survival probability of males and females was 49% and 33% respectively. The covid patients with comorbid factors had a lower survival probability than those without comorbid ones. The covid patients hospitalized in Dustira Hospital and RSUD Cibabat were those showing the symptoms from the beginning of the disease, and the dead patients were those with comorbid factors.
Keywords: Survival analysis- Covid 19- Life table - Kaplan Meier.
