Analysis of COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Among Patients With Psychiatric Disorders, 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

People with major psychiatric disorders are more likely to have comorbidities associated with worse outcomes of COVID-19. This fact alone could determine greater vulnerability of people with major psychiatric disorders to COVID-19.

Objective

To assess the odds of testing positive for and mortality from COVID-19 among and between patients with schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders and a reference group in a large national database.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used an electronic health record data set aggregated from many national sources in the United States and licensed from Optum with current and historical data on patients tested for COVID-19 in 2020. Three psychiatric cohorts (patients with schizophrenia, mood

SUBMITTER: Teixeira AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611476 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature