Estudo dos fatores que influenciam no tempo até o óbito de pacientes com covid-19 em Mato Grosso no ano de 2020

Abstract

The World Health Organization declared that COVID-19, a disease caused by the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Importance. The advance of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil presents challenges to different states and municipalities. In this sense, this work proposed to list factors that contribute to increase the risk of death from COVID-19 in the state of Mato Grosso. For this study, the time from hospitalization of the patient until death due to complications of COVID-19 was modeled, the statistical technique used for the study was the survival analysis, which is the most appropriate methodology when it involves the time until the occurrence of an event of interest. It is expected that the results obtained in the execution of the study will help researchers, managers and health professionals in understanding this epidemic and in the development of actions and decision-making in the health of the population. Among the variables studied, it was shown that age is the factor that contributes to increase the risk of death in hospitalized patients due to complications of COVID-19, in the state of Mato Grosso.