COVID-19 admission risk tools should include multiethnic age structures, multimorbidity and deprivation metrics for air pollution, household overcrowding, housing quality and adult skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethnic minorities account for 34% of critically ill patients with COVID-19 despite constituting 14% of the UK population. Internationally, researchers have called for studies to understand deterioration risk factors to inform clinical risk tool development.

Methods

Multicentre cohort study of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 (n=3671) exploring determinants of health, including Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) subdomains, as risk factors for presentation, deterioration and mortality by ethnicity. Receiver operator characteristics were plotted for CURB65 and ISARIC4C by ethnicity and area under the curve (AUC) calculated.

Results

Ethnic minorities were hospitalised with higher Charlson Comorbidity Scores than age, sex and deprivation matched controls an

SUBMITTER: Soltan MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8354812 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature