Treatment intensity and mortality among COVID-19 patients with dementia: A retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to determine whether dementia is associated with treatment intensity and mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Methods

This study includes review of the medical records for patients >60 years of age (n = 5394) hospitalized with COVID-19 from 132 community hospitals between March and June 2020. We examined the relationships between dementia and treatment intensity (including intensive care unit [ICU] admission and mechanical ventilation [MV] and care processes that may influence them, including advance care planning [ACP] billing and do-not-resuscitate [DNR] orders) and in-hospital mortality adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, comorbidity, month of hospitalization, and clustering within hospital. We further explored the effect of ACP conve

SUBMITTER: Barnato AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8742761 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature