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).