id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-285772-4xt4anq5 Huang, Rui Clinical findings of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Jiangsu province, China: A retrospective, multi-center study 2020-05-08 .txt text/plain 3379 217 59 This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 and identify the risk factors for severe illness of COVID-19 in Jiangsu province, China. Several studies have reported the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized in Wuhan (the outbreak center of the infection) [4, 6, 7] . conducted a retrospective, single-center study which included 99 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan and found that the virus was more likely to infect older men with comorbidities, and the mortality rate was as high as 11% [4] . Another single-center study which analyzed 138 hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 in Wuhan, found that 26% of patients received ICU care and the mortality rate was only 4.3% [7] . In this multi-center study, we aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 and to identify the risk factors of severe illness among inpatients with confirmed COVID-19 in Jiangsu province, which is located in the east of China. ./cache/cord-285772-4xt4anq5.txt ./txt/cord-285772-4xt4anq5.txt