Using EHR data to identify coronavirus infections in hospitalized patients: Impact of case definitions on disease surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the number, characteristics, and outcomes of patients identified hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) using two different case definitions.

Procedures

Electronic Health Record data were evaluated from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 through May 2020 at 52 health systems across the United States. Characteristics of inpatients with positive laboratory tests for SARS-CoV-2 were compared with those with clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 but without a confirmatory lab result.

Findings

Of 14,371 inpatients with COVID-19, 6623 (46.1 %) had a positive laboratory result, and n = 7748 (52.9 %) had only a clinical diagnosis of COVID-19. Compared with clinically diagnosed cases, those with laboratory-confirmed COVID were similar in age and se

SUBMITTER: Navar AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9359535 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature