Association of dementia and patient outcomes among COVID-19 patients: A multi-center retrospective case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We conducted a retrospective cohort study on COVID-19 patients with and without dementia by extracting data from the HCA Healthcare Enterprise Data Warehouse between January-September 2020.

Aims

To describe the role of patients' baseline characteristics specifically dementia in determining overall health outcomes in COVID-19 patients.

Methods

We grouped in-patients who had ICD-10 codes for dementia (DM) with age and gender-matched (1:2) patients without dementia (ND). Our primary outcome variables were in-hospital mortality, length of stay, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission, ICU-free days, mechanical ventilation (MV) use, MV-free days and 90-day re-admission.

Results

Matching provided similar age and sex in DM and ND groups. BMI (median, 25.8 vs. 2

SUBMITTER: Vekaria PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9676493 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature