COVID-19 and Hospitalization Among Maintenance Dialysis Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Time-Dependent Modeling.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound impact on hospitalizations in general and on dialysis patients in particular. This study modeled the impact of COVID-19 on hospitalizations of dialysis patients in 2020.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting & participants

Medicare patients on dialysis in calendar year 2020.

Predictors

COVID-19 status was divided into 4 stages: COVID1 (first 10 days after initial diagnosis), COVID2 (extends until the Post-COVID stage), Post-COVID (after 21 days with no COVID-19 diagnosis), and Late-COVID (begins after a hospitalization with a COVID-19 diagnosis); demographic and clinical characteristics; and dialysis facilities.

Outcome

The sequence of hospitalization eve

SUBMITTER: Ding X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9398821 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature