Hospitalized Infections in Patients With Rheumatic Disease Hospitalizations in Alaska, 2015-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Rheumatic diseases are associated with increased rates of hospitalized infection, but few studies have included Indigenous North American populations. Our objective was to evaluate the association of rheumatic disease diagnosis during a hospitalization with odds of hospitalized infections in Alaska and assess differences by race.

Methods

We used hospital discharge data from the Alaska Health Facilities Data Reporting Program from 2015 to 2018. We identified people with a rheumatic disease diagnosis based on any hospital discharge diagnosis of a set of rheumatic diseases and compared them to people hospitalized but without a rheumatic disease diagnosis. We determined odds of hospitalized infection by rheumatic disease diagnosis status and type, race, and type of inf

SUBMITTER: Ferucci ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10010486 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature