Comparison of Outcomes between Vaccinated versus Non-Vaccinated Covid-19 Patients
Talal Safdar, Faiza Shafqat, Abida Mateen Ansari, Amjad Ali, Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Imran
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ABSTRACT
Objective: To compare the outcomes in term of hospital stay and mortality between vaccinated and nonvaccinated
covid-19 patients.
Study Design: Prospective/Observational
Place and Duration: The study was conducted at Medicine department of Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi
and Pak International Medical College Hayatabad Peshawar for six months duration from December 2020 to May
2021.
Methodology: One hundred ten patients of either gender with covid-19 disease were enrolled. All the patients
were confirmed with RT PCR. Patients were randomly divided in to two groups. Group I (vaccinated) comprised of
45 patients and group II (non-vaccinated) comprised of 65 patients. Severity of disease, hospital stay and
mortality were compared between both groups. Data was analyzed by SPSS 24.0.
Results: There were 74 (67.27%) males while 36 (32.73%) patients were females. Mean age of patients was
50.54±12.76 years. Mean BMI was 26.23±2.44 kg/m2. 10 (22.22%) patients in vaccinated group and 40 (61.54%)
in nonvaccinated group had severe covid-19 disease, a significant difference was observed regarding severity of
disease between both groups with p-value <0.05. Mortality rate and hospital stay were also high in nonvaccinated
patients as compared to vaccinated (p-value <0.05).
Conclusion: It is concluded that non-vaccinated patients of covid-19 had prolonged hospital stay and high rate of
severity of disease and mortality as compared to vaccinated patients.
Keywords: Covid-19, Vaccination, Severity, Hospital Stay, Mortality