Newport Kristina B, Malhotra Sonia, Widera Eric
Section of Palliative Care, Penn State Health Department of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Section of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Deming Department of Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine/University Medical Center New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 Aug;60(2):e52-e55. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.04.152. Epub 2020 May 7.
Accurate prognostication is challenging in the setting of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, due to rapidly changing data, studies that are not generalizable, and lack of morbidity and functional outcomes in survivors. To provide meaningful guidance to patients, existing mortality data must be considered and appropriately applied. Although most people infected with SARS-CoV-2 will recover, mortality increases with age and comorbidity in those who develop severe illness.
在由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）引发的2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）疫情背景下，准确的预后判断颇具挑战性，这是因为数据快速变化、研究缺乏普遍性，且幸存者的发病率和功能转归情况不明。为了给患者提供有意义的指导，必须考量并合理应用现有的死亡率数据。虽然大多数感染SARS-CoV-2的人会康复，但对于那些病情严重的患者，死亡率会随着年龄增长和合并症而升高。
