Outcomes in patients with and without disability admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disability-related considerations have largely been absent from the COVID-19 response, despite evidence that people with disabilities are at elevated risk for acquiring COVID-19. We evaluated clinical outcomes in patients who were admitted to hospital with COVID-19 with a disability compared with patients without a disability.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study that included adults with COVID-19 who were admitted to hospital and discharged between Jan. 1, 2020, and Nov. 30, 2020, at 7 hospitals in Ontario, Canada. We compared in-hospital death, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), hospital length of stay and unplanned 30-day readmission among patients with and without a physical disability, hearing or vision impairment, traumatic brain injury

SUBMITTER: Brown HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8900770 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature