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<journal-id>1684-1824</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Médica Electrónica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev.Med.Electrón.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1684-1824</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1684-18242020000602474</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Características clínico-epidemiológicas de los pacientes ingresados en el Hospital &#8220;Amalia Simoni&#8221; durante la pandemia Covid-19]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Clinical-epidemiologic characteristics of the patients admitted in the Hospital &#8220;Amalia Simoni&#8221; during the Covid-19 pandemics]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Navarro Pirez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Doris O]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Gallo Navarro]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Martínez Chávez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Surama]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
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<surname><![CDATA[Arredondo Bruce]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alfredo E]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico Docente Amalia Simoni  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Camagüey]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>42</volume>
<numero>6</numero>
<fpage>2474</fpage>
<lpage>2486</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1684-18242020000602474&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1684-18242020000602474&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1684-18242020000602474&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Introducción:  desde los finales del año pasado en Wuhan, se informó de una neumonía de etiología desconocida, que llevó a la Organización Mundial de la Salud a declarar la infección por SARS-CoV-2, como una emergencia sanitaria denominándola como enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). En Cuba se confeccionó un programa de enfrentamiento, en el cual la atención hospitalaria, siguió un riguroso protocolo de atención a pacientes positivos de la COVID-19, en áreas de cuidados mínimos, intensivos o progresivos.  Objetivo:  caracterizar clínica/epidemiológica pacientes positivos de la COVID-19, ingresados en el Hospital &#8220;Amalia Simoni&#8221;.  Materiales y métodos:  se realizó un estudio descriptivo, transversal de 1 066 ingresos en el Hospital &#8220;Amalia Simoni&#8221;, de marzo-mayo del 2020. Se revisaron historias clínicas y se obtuvo: edad, sexo, procedencia, sintomatología, comorbilidades y evolución epidemiológica. Datos que se evaluaron mediante estadísticas descriptivas.  Resultados:  se halló un predominio de edad media, sin diferencias de sexo, predominaron los casos de la ciudad de Camagüey y de los municipios con mayor urbanización. Prevalecieron la tos y la fiebre, además de la mitad de los casos sin comorbilidades, con solo un pequeño porcentaje de casos confirmados.  Conclusiones:  con un enfoque basado en la medicina preventiva en los casos estudiados, predominó la edad media, de procedencia de áreas urbanizadas con mayor población y aglomeraciones sociales. Se destacó que el ingreso precoz, basada en la pesquisa de la Atención Primaria logró disminuir los casos confirmados a un pequeño porcentaje, al igual que los graves y un solo fallecido.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Introduction:  from the end of the last year in Wuhan, China, it was informed an unknown etiology pneumonia leading the World Health Organization to declare the infection with SARS-CoV-2 a sanitary emergency naming it coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). A confrontation program was elaborated in Cuba, in which hospital care followed a rigorous protocol to take care to Covid-19-positive patients in areas of minimal, intensive and progressive care.  Objective:  to clinically/epidemiologically characterize Covid-19-positive patients admitted in the Hospital &#8220;Amalia Simoni&#8221;.  Materials and methods:  a cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out in 1 066 patients admitted in the Hospital &#8220;Amalia Simoni&#8221; in the period March-May 2020. Clinical records were reviewed and data gathered were age, sex, origin, symptomatology, co-morbidities and epidemiological evolution, data obtained through descriptive statistics.  Results:  it was found the predominance of medium age, without sex differences; the cases of patients from the city of Camaguey and from the municipalities with biggest urbanization predominated. Cough and fever prevailed; half of cases did not have comorbidities, and only a little percent of cases was confirmed.  Conclusions:  with an approach based in preventive medicine, medium age, and provenance from urban areas with bigger population and social concentrations predominated in the studied cases. It was showed that precocious admission, based on the Primary Health Care screening, succeeded in diminish confirmed cases to a little percent, as diminished the seriously ill ones; only one patient died.]]></p></abstract>
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