Healthcare Disparities Correlated with In-Hospital Mortality in COVID-19 Patients.

COVID-19 disability disparities mortality race

Journal

International journal of general medicine
ISSN: 1178-7074
Titre abrégé: Int J Gen Med
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101515487

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 24 06 2021
accepted: 16 08 2021
entrez: 22 9 2021
pubmed: 23 9 2021
medline: 23 9 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Increasing age, male gender, African American race, and medical comorbidities have been reported as risk factors for COVID-19 mortality. We aimed to identify health-care disparities associated with increased mortality in COVID-19 patients. We performed an observational study of all hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV2 infection from within the largest multicenter healthcare system in Southeast Michigan, from February to December, 2020. From 11,304 hospitalized patients, 1295 died, representing an in-hospital mortality rate of 11.5%. The mean age of hospitalized patients was 63.77 years-old, with 49.96% being males. Older age (AOR = 1.05, p < 0.0001), male gender (AOR = 1.43, p < 0.0001), divorced status (AOR = 1.25, p = 0.0256), disabled status (AOR = 1.42, p = 0.0091), and homemakers (AOR = 1.96, p = 0.0216) were significantly associated with in-hospital mortality. Older age, male gender, divorced and disabled status and homemakers were significantly associated with in-hospital mortality if they developed COVID-19. Further research should aim to identify the underlying factors driving these disparities in COVID-19 in-hospital mortality.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34548810
doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S326338
pii: 326338
pmc: PMC8449643
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

5593-5596

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Harvey et al.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors have no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

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Auteurs

Rachel Harvey (R)

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.

Maryan Hermez (M)

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.

Luke Schanz (L)

Internal Medicine Department, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, MI, USA.

Patrick Karabon (P)

Office of Research, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.

Tracy Wunderlich-Barillas (T)

Office of Research, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.

Alexandra Halalau (A)

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, USA.
Internal Medicine Department, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, MI, USA.

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