Retrospective cohort study of admission timing and mortality following COVID-19 infection in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We investigated whether the timing of hospital admission is associated with the risk of mortality for patients with COVID-19 in England, and the factors associated with a longer interval between symptom onset and hospital admission.

Design

Retrospective observational cohort study of data collected by the COVID-19 Hospitalisation in England Surveillance System (CHESS). Data were analysed using multivariate regression analysis.

Setting

Acute hospital trusts in England that submit data to CHESS routinely.

Participants

Of 14 150 patients included in CHESS until 13 May 2020, 401 lacked a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 and 7666 lacked a recorded date of symptom onset. This left 6083 individuals, of whom 15 were excluded because the time between symptom on

SUBMITTER: Alaa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7684820 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature