Study design and patients
The cases hospitalized with the diagnosis of COVID-19 in the adult
intensive care unit of Şanlıurfa Training and Research Hospital between
March 2020 and December 2020 were evaluated retrospectively. Approval
for the study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Harran
University with the decision no HRU/XXX decree. The study was conducted
per the Declaration of Helsinki. Three hundred seventy-four patients
whose data were fully accessed via the hospital information system were
included in the study. The patients were divided into two groups: those
who were transferred to the pandemic service and those who died. Group-1
consisted of patients without mortality (n=148), and group-2 consisted
of patients who died (n=226).