Title: How health knowledge that can influence patient outcome

Authors: Leandro Pereira; Carlos H. Jerónimo; André Salgado; Álvaro Dias; Renato Lopes da Costa; Rui Gonçalves

Addresses: Winning Laboratory, BRU – Business Research Unit, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal ' Winning Laboratory, Lisbon, Portugal ' Winning Laboratory, Lisbon, Portugal ' ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal ' BRU-IUL – Business Research Unit, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal ' PIAGET Almada, Almada, Portugal

Abstract: Since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, it has killed more than two million people worldwide. Some are directly due to complications and symptoms of the virus, others due to lack of resources to take care of all the patients affected by it. A proper triage can go a long way to an efficient resource allocation, which makes it extremely relevant to understand which factors can affect COVID-19 complications or mortality risk. With the analysis of survey data collect form front-line Portuguese doctors, it was possible to identify the main comorbidities and health issues that can influence patient outcome.

Keywords: COVID-19; mortality risk; comorbidities; severity of symptoms; knowledge management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2024.136962

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2024 Vol.16 No.2, pp.150 - 160

Received: 18 Aug 2021
Accepted: 04 Dec 2021
Published online: 01 Mar 2024 *

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