TY - JOUR AU - Cattelan, Anna Maria AU - Di Meco, Eugenia AU - Trevenzoli, Marco AU - Frater, Alessia AU - Ferrari, Anna AU - Villano, Marco AU - Gomiero, Federica AU - Carretta, Giovanni AU - Sasset, Lolita PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/09 TI - Clinical characteristics and laboratory biomarkers changes in COVID-19 patients requiring or not intensive or sub-intensive care: a comparative study JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 934 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Identifying risk factors for severe novel-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is useful to ascertain which patients may benefit from advanced supportive care. The study offers a description of COVID-19 patients, admitted to a general ward for a non-critical clinical picture, with the aim to analyse the differences between those transferred to the intensive (ICU) and/or sub-intensive care (SICU) units and those who were not. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05647-7 DO - 10.1186/s12879-020-05647-7 ID - Cattelan2020 ER -