Impact of COVID-19 on Outcomes in Ischemic Stroke Patients in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies have shown worse outcomes in patients with comorbid ischemic stroke (IS) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but have had small sample sizes.

Methods

We retrospectively identified patients in the Vizient Clinical Data Base® with IS as a discharge diagnosis. The study outcomes were in-hospital death and favorable discharge (home or acute rehabilitation). In the primary analysis, we compared IS patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (IS-COVID) discharged April 1-July 31, 2020 to pre-COVID IS patients discharged in 2019 (IS controls). In a secondary analysis, we compared a matched cohort of IS-COVID patients to patients within the IS controls who had pneumonia (IS-PNA), created with inverse-probability-weighting (IPW).

Results

In the primary

SUBMITTER: de Havenon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7832426 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature