Lack of racial and ethnic disparities in mortality in minority patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a mid-Atlantic healthcare system
| Autor: | Jamie Perin, Panagis Galiatsatos, Nadia N Hansel, Henry Michtalik, Jocelyn Shubella, Andi Shahu, John W Jackson, Brian Garibaldi, Dapeng Yao, Yanxun Xu, Damani Piggott, Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia, Harolyn M E Belcher, Sherita Golden |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | BMJ Open Respiratory Research, Vol 11, Iss 1 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2024-0023 2052-4439 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002310 |
| Popis: | Introduction In the USA, minoritised communities (racial and ethnic) have suffered disproportionately from COVID-19 compared with non-Hispanic white communities. In a large cohort of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 in a healthcare system spanning five adult hospitals, we analysed outcomes of patients based on race and ethnicity.Methods This was a retrospective cohort analysis of patients 18 years or older admitted to five hospitals in the mid-Atlantic area between 4 March 2020 and 27 May 2022 with confirmed COVID-19. Participants were divided into four groups based on their race/ethnicity: non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, Latinx and other. Propensity score weighted generalised linear models were used to assess the association between race/ethnicity and the primary outcome of in-hospital mortality.Results Of the 9651 participants in the cohort, more than half were aged 18–64 years old (56%) and 51% of the cohort were females. Non-Hispanic white patients had higher mortality (p |
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