Association Between Mental Health Disorders and Mortality Among Patients With COVID-19 in 7 Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Heterogeneous evidence exists for the association between COVID-19 and the clinical outcomes of patients with mental health disorders. It remains unknown whether patients with COVID-19 and mental health disorders are at increased risk of mortality and should thus be targeted as a high-risk population for severe forms of COVID-19.

Objective

To determine whether patients with mental health disorders were at increased risk of COVID-19 mortality compared with patients without mental health disorders.

Data sources

For this systematic review and meta-analysis, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searched from inception to February 12, 2021. Bibliographies were also searched, and the corresponding authors were directly contacted. The search paradigm w

SUBMITTER: Fond G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8317055 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature