Deaths in people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities from both COVID-19 and non-COVID causes in the first weeks of the pandemic in London: a hospital case note review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To undertake a case review of deaths in a 6-week period during the COVID-19 pandemic commencing with the first death in the hospital from COVID-19 on 12th of March 2020 and contrast this with the same period in 2019.

Setting

A large London teaching hospital.

Participants

Three groups were compared: group 1-COVID-19-associated deaths in the 6-week period (n=243), group 2-non-COVID deaths in the same period (n=136) and group 3-all deaths in a comparison period of the same 6 weeks in 2019 (n=194).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

This was a descriptive analysis of death case series review and as such no primary or secondary outcomes were pre-stipulated.

Results

Deaths in patients from the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities i

SUBMITTER: Perkin MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569709 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature