Trends in Patient Characteristics and COVID-19 In-Hospital Mortality in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In-hospital mortality rates from COVID-19 are high but appear to be decreasing for selected locations in the United States. It is not known whether this is because of changes in the characteristics of patients being admitted.

Objective

To describe changing in-hospital mortality rates over time after accounting for individual patient characteristics.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective cohort study of 20 736 adults with a diagnosis of COVID-19 who were included in the US American Heart Association COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry and admitted to 107 acute care hospitals in 31 states from March through November 2020. A multiple mixed-effects logistic regression was then used to estimate the odds of in-hospital death adjusted for

SUBMITTER: Roth GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8094014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature