COVID-19 infection, admission and death among people with rare autoimmune rheumatic disease in England: results from the RECORDER project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To calculate the rates of COVID-19 infection and COVID-19-related death among people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases (RAIRD) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in England compared with the general population.

Methods

We used Hospital Episode Statistics to identify all people alive on 1 March 2020 with ICD-10 codes for RAIRD from the whole population of England. We used linked national health records (demographic, death certificate, admissions and PCR testing data) to calculate rates of COVID-19 infection and death up to 31 July 2020. Our primary definition of COVID-19-related death was mention of COVID-19 on the death certificate. General population data from Public Health England and the Office for National Statistics were used for comparison.

SUBMITTER: Rutter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8586729 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature