Risk Factors for Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New York City emerged as an epicenter of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Objective

To describe the clinical characteristics and risk factors associated with mortality in a large patient population in the USA.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Participants

6493 patients who had laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 with clinical outcomes between March 13 and April 17, 2020, who were seen in one of the 8 hospitals and/or over 400 ambulatory practices in the New York City metropolitan area MAIN MEASURES: Clinical characteristics and risk factors associated with in-hospital mortality.

Key results

A total of 858 of 6493 (13.2%) patients in our total cohort died: 52/2785 (1.9%) ambulatory patients and 806/3708 (21.7%) hospitalized patient

SUBMITTER: Mikami T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7325642 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature