Long term risk of death and readmission after hospital admission with covid-19 among older adults: retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize the long term risk of death and hospital readmission after an index admission with covid-19 among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, and to compare these outcomes with historical control patients admitted to hospital with influenza.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

United States.

Participants

883 394 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries age ≥65 years discharged alive after an index hospital admission with covid-19 between 1 March 2020 and 31 August 2022, compared with 56 409 historical controls discharged alive after a hospital admission with influenza between 1 March 2018 and 31 August 2019. Weighting methods were used to account for differences in observed characteristics.

Main outcome measures

All cause deat

SUBMITTER: Oseran AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10475839 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature