Disparities in the excess risk of mortality in the first wave of COVID-19: Cross sectional study of the English sentinel network.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Few studies report contributors to the excess mortality in England during the first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. We report the absolute excess risk (AER) of mortality and excess mortality rate (EMR) from a nationally representative COVID-19 sentinel surveillance network including known COVID-19 risk factors in people aged 45 years and above.

Methods

Pseudonymised, coded clinical data were uploaded from contributing primary care providers (N = 1,970,314, ≥45years). We calculated the AER in mortality by comparing mortality for weeks 2 to 20 this year with mortality data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) from 2018 for the same weeks. We conducted univariate and multivariate analysis including preselected variables. We report AER

SUBMITTER: de Lusignan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446615 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature