Risk factors for COVID-19 mortality among telehealth patients in Bangladesh: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Estimating the contribution of risk factors of mortality due to COVID-19 is particularly important in settings with low vaccination coverage and limited public health and clinical resources. Very few studies of risk factors of COVID-19 mortality used high-quality data at an individual level from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We examined the contribution of demographic, socioeconomic and clinical risk factors of COVID-19 mortality in Bangladesh, a lower middle-income country in South Asia.

Methods

We used data from 290,488 lab-confirmed COVID-19 patients who participated in a telehealth service in Bangladesh between May 2020 and June 2021, linked with COVID-19 death data from a national database to study the risk factors associated with mo

SUBMITTER: Sania A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10266619 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature