Table 3

Treatments and clinical outcomes of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first 2 weeks of admission at Mulago National Specialised Hospital and Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital

VariableAllMulago National Specialised HospitalEntebbe Regional Referral HospitalP value
Treatmentsn=55n=24n=31
 Hydroxychloroquine, n (%)29 (52.7)0 (0.0)29 (93.6)<0.001*
 Antibiotics, n (%)42 (76.4)12 (50.0)30 (96.8)<0.001*
Clinical outcomes at data cut-off, no (%)
 Length of hospitalisation (days)n=47n=20n=27
  Mean (SD)20.6 (4.1)19.3 (1.5)21.5 (5.1)0.068†
  Median (IQR)20 (19–21)19 (18–20)21 (19–22)0.012‡
 Discharged from hospital with two negative RT-PCRs562531
 Death000
 Admitted to intensive care unit000
  • *Fisher’s exact test.

  • †t-Test.

  • ‡Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

  • RT-PCR, reverse transcriptase PCR.