Estimating the effects of race and social vulnerability on hospital admission and mortality from COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the risk of hospital admission and mortality from COVID-19 to patients and measure the association of race and area-level social vulnerability with those outcomes.

Materials and methods

Using patient records collected at a multisite hospital system from April 2020 to October 2020, the risk of hospital admission and the risk of mortality were estimated for patients who tested positive for COVID-19 and were admitted to the hospital for COVID-19, respectively, using generalized estimating equations while controlling for patient race, patient area-level social vulnerability, and time course of the pandemic.

Results

Black individuals were 3.57 as likely (95% CI, 3.18-4.00) to be hospitalized than White people, and patients living in the most disadvant

SUBMITTER: Landman JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8822405 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature