COVID-19 Risk Factors and Mortality Outcomes Among Medicare Patients Receiving Long-term Dialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is a need for studies to evaluate the risk factors for COVID-19 and mortality among the entire Medicare long-term dialysis population using Medicare claims data.

Objective

To identify risk factors associated with COVID-19 and mortality in Medicare patients undergoing long-term dialysis.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective, claims-based cohort study compared mortality trends of patients receiving long-term dialysis in 2020 with previous years (2013-2019) and fit Cox regression models to identify risk factors for contracting COVID-19 and postdiagnosis mortality. The cohort included the national population of Medicare patients receiving long-term dialysis in 2020, derived from clinical and administrative databases. COVID-19 was identifie

SUBMITTER: Salerno S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600389 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature