Combinations of multiple long term conditions and risk of hospital admission or death during winter 2021-22 in England: population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe which combinations of long term conditions were associated with a higher risk of hospital admission or death during winter 2021-22 (the third wave of the covid-19 pandemic) in adults in England.

Design

Population based cohort study.

Setting

Linked primary and secondary care data from the General Practice Extraction Service Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (GDPPR) database, Hospital Episode Statistics, and Office for National Statistics death registry, comprising pseudoanonymised routinely collected electronic medical records from the whole population of England registered at a general practice, 1 December 2021 to 31 March 2022.

Participants

48 253 125 individuals, registered in GDPPR in England, aged ≥18 years, and alive on 1 Decemb

SUBMITTER: Islam N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11580288 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature