Epidemiological And Clinical Characteristics Of Outpatients With Covid-19 Undergoing Self-Isolation

Abstract

Background: The pandemic of COVID-19 first appeared in the Wuhan, China in the end of 2019 and caused a global pandemic including Indonesia. Millions of people were infected and died. The Ministry of Health in Indonesia published a recommendation that the COVID-19 patients who are asymptomatic and mild symptom were suggested to do self-isolation at their home. There were a few articles discussing outpatient with COVID-19 in the academic hospital setting. Therefore, this article aims to describe clinical dan laboratory characteristics of outpatient with COVID-19 who undergoing self-isolation. Methods: A retrospective study through the electronic medical records of 255 outpatients with COVID-19 was done by analysing electronic medical report from the first 6 months of opening outpatient clinic focused on sign and symptoms related to respiratory tract infection. Results: The result showed that more than half of patients were female (50.6%), aged 18-60 years (83.5%), had the mild COVID-19 symptoms (76.9%), normal chest X-ray (85.5%), normal C-reactive protein (77.6%), and the length of self-isolation was no more than 14 days (66.3%). Cough (48.2%) and fever (33.3%) were found as the majority clinical symptom of the patients. Conclusion: Our study shows that the outpatients with COVID-19 undergoing self-isolation have mild-symptoms such as cough and fever with normal chest x-ray, C-reactive protein and normal whole blood count values. Our study also confirms that patient with asymptomatic and mild symptoms of COVID-19 patients were safe to undergoing self-isolation with length of quarantine about 14 days.