Objective: To describe the characteristics of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the La Libertad–EsSalud healthcare network, 2020. Materials and methods: A descriptive study. The data was collected from the clinical epidemiological records and medical records of patients hospitalized from March 15 to August 17, 2020. The research variables were age, sex, comorbidity, hospital stay, use of mechanical ventilation, number of days on mechanical ventilation, number of deaths and number of discharged patients. Absolute and relative frequencies and the p value were calculated. Results: The study population consisted of 2,093 patients hospitalized for COVID-19, whose average age was 58 years. Sixtyone point two three percent (61.23 %) were males, 39.99 % had comorbidities, the mean hospital stay was 8 days, 9.79 % were admitted to the ICU and spent 20.40 days on average, 9.56 % required mec...

Objective: To identify the factors associated with dengue with warning signs among the insured population of the department of La Libertad in 2023. Materials and methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study analyzed a population comprising the entire universe of dengue patients with warning signs (n = 252). The sample consisted of 249 cases recorded from January to June 2023. The dependent variable was dengue with warning signs, while the independent variables were age (categorized by life stages), sex, history of dengue and comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, asthma, cancer (acute and chronic lymphoblastic leukemia, prostate cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer, rectal cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma), chronic kidney disease and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The bivariate analysis involved calculating absolute and relative frequ...