Surge in Incidence and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospital Risk of Death, United States, September 2020 to March 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies of the early months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic indicate that patient outcomes may be adversely affected by surges. However, the impact on in-hospital mortality during the largest surge to date, September 2020-March 2021, has not been studied. This study aimed to determine whether in-hospital mortality was impacted by the community surge of COVID-19.

Methods

This is a retrospective cohort study of 416 962 adult COVID-19 patients admitted immediately before or during the surge at 229 US academic and 432 community hospitals in the Vizient Clinical Database. The odds ratios (ORs) of death among hospitalized patients during each phase of the surge was compared with the corresponding odds before the surge and adjusted for demographic, co

SUBMITTER: Patel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9550629 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature