Readmissions, post-discharge mortality and sustained recovery among patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many interventional in-patient COVID-19 trials assess primary outcomes through day 28 post-randomization. Since a proportion of patients experience protracted disease or relapse, such follow-up period may not fully capture the course of the disease, even when randomization occurs a few days after hospitalization.

Methods

Among adults hospitalized with COVID-19 in Eastern Denmark from March 18, 2020 - January 12, 2021 we assessed: all-cause mortality, recovery and sustained recovery 90 days after admission, and readmission and all-cause mortality 90 days after discharge. Recovery was defined as hospital discharge and sustained recovery as recovery and alive without readmissions for 14 consecutive days.

Results

Among 3,386 patients included in the study 2,796

SUBMITTER: Moestrup KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384687 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature