Trends in 28-Day Mortality of Critical Care Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in the United Kingdom: A National Cohort Study, March 2020 to January 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether the previously described trend of improving mortality in people with coronavirus disease 2019 in critical care during the first wave was maintained, plateaued, or reversed during the second wave in United Kingdom, when B117 became the dominant strain.

Design

National retrospective cohort study.

Setting

All English hospital trusts (i.e., groups of hospitals functioning as single operational units), reporting critical care admissions (high dependency unit and ICU) to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalization in England Surveillance System.

Patients

A total of 49,862 (34,336 high dependency unit and 15,526 ICU) patients admitted between March 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021 (inclusive).

Interventions

Not applicable.

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SUBMITTER: Dennis JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8507592 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature