Overall and cause-specific hospitalisation and death after COVID-19 hospitalisation in England: A cohort study using linked primary care, secondary care, and death registration data in the OpenSAFELY platform.
Overall and cause-specific hospitalisation and death after COVID-19 hospitalisation in England: A cohort study using linked primary care, secondary care, and death registration data in the OpenSAFELY platform.
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1003871
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2022-01
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15.8
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Goldacre B
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Bhaskaran K;Rentsch CT;Hickman G;Hulme WJ;Schultze A;Curtis HJ;Wing K;Warren-Gash C;Tomlinson L;Bates CJ;Mathur R;MacKenna B;Mahalingasivam V;Wong A;Walker AJ;Morton CE;Grint D;Mehrkar A;Eggo RM;Inglesby P;Douglas IJ;McDonald HI;Cockburn J;Williamson EJ;Evans D;Parry J;Hester F;Harper S;Evans SJ;Bacon S;Smeeth L;Goldacre B
There is concern about medium to long-term adverse outcomes following acute Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), but little relevant evidence exists. We aimed to investigate whether risks of hospital admission and death, overall and by specific cause, are raised following discharge from a COVID-19 hospitalisation. With the approval of NHS-England, we conducted a cohort study, using linked primary care and hospital data in OpenSAFELY to compare risks of hospital admission and death, overall and by specific cause, between people discharged from COVID-19 hospitalisation (February to December 2020) and surviving at least 1 week, and (i) demographically matched controls from the 2019 general population; and (ii) people discharged from influenza hospitalisation in 2017 to 2019. We used Cox regression adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, obesity, smoking status, deprivation, and comorbidities considered potential risk factors for severe COVID-19 outcomes. We included 24,673 postdischarge COVID-19 patients, 123,362 general population controls, and 16,058 influenza controls, followed for ≤315 days. COVID-19 patients had median age of 66 years, 13,733 (56%) were male, and 19,061 (77%) were of white ethnicity. Overall risk of hospitalisation or death (30,968 events) was higher in the COVID-19 group than general population controls (fully adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 2.22, 2.14 to 2.30, p < 0.001) but slightly lower than the influenza group (aHR 0.95, 0.91 to 0.98, p = 0.004). All-cause mortality (7,439 events) was highest in the COVID-19 group (aHR 4.82, 4.48 to 5.19 versus general population controls [p < 0.001] and 1.74, 1.61 to 1.88 versus influenza controls [p < 0.001]). Risks for cause-specific outcomes were higher in COVID-19 survivors than in general population controls and largely similar or lower in COVID-19 compared with influenza patients. However, COVID-19 patients were more likely than influenza patients to be readmitted or die due to their initial infection or other lower respiratory tract infection (aHR 1.37, 1.22 to 1.54, p < 0.001) and to experience mental health or cognitive-related admission or death (aHR 1.37, 1.02 to 1.84, p = 0.039); in particular, COVID-19 survivors with preexisting dementia had higher risk of dementia hospitalisation or death (age- and sex-adjusted HR 2.47, 1.37 to 4.44, p = 0.002). Limitations of our study were that reasons for hospitalisation or death may have been misclassified in some cases due to inconsistent use of codes, and we did not have data to distinguish COVID-19 variants. In this study, we observed that people discharged from a COVID-19 hospital admission had markedly higher risks for rehospitalisation and death than the general population, suggesting a substantial extra burden on healthcare. Most risks were similar to those observed after influenza hospitalisations, but COVID-19 patients had higher risks of all-cause mortality, readmission or death due to the initial infection, and dementia death, highlighting the importance of postdischarge monitoring. Krishnan Bhaskaran and co-workers study health outcomes after admission with COVID-19 and subsequent discharge. - Early studies have suggested that some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 may be at risk of developing health problems in the months after their initial infection. Given high rates of infection in many countries, this is a significant public health concern, but there is currently limited evidence to inform policy. - The aim of this study was to systematically quantify the extent to which people who have been in hospital with COVID-19 may be at higher risk of dying or being readmitted to hospital, either overall or for specific illnesses, compared with people in the general population, and people who have been hospitalised with influenza. - We used a cohort study design to compare risks of hospitalisation and death, overall and for a range of specific causes, between people who had hospitalised with COVID-19 (n = 24,673), people with similar demographic characteristics in the 2019 general population (n = 123,362), and people who had been hospitalised with influenza in 2017 to 2019 (n = 16,058). - Compared with people in the general population, people who had had a COVID-19 hospitalisation were more than twice as likely to be rehospitalised or die more than a week after discharge, with higher risks overall and for a range of specific causes. - COVID-19 patients had broadly similar or lower risk of several outcomes compared with influenza patients, but risk of death overall, readmissions or death due to the initial infection, and dementia death were higher in COVID-19 patients. - Large numbers of people have been hospitalised with COVID-19 during the pandemic, and the raised risks of death and readmission to hospital that we observed in these individuals could significantly impact public health and resources. - Risks might be minimised or mitigated by increasing monitoring of patients in the months following hospital discharge, and greater awareness among patients and clinicians of potential problems.
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Schultze A;Bates C;Cockburn J;MacKenna B;Nightingale E;Curtis HJ;Hulme WJ;Morton CE;Croker R;Bacon S;McDonald HI;Rentsch CT;Bhaskaran K;Mathur R;Tomlinson LA;Williamson EJ;Forbes H;Tazare J;Grint DJ;Walker AJ;Inglesby P;DeVito NJ;Mehrkar A;Hickman G;Davy S;Ward T;Fisher L;Evans D;Wing K;Wong AY;McManus R;Parry J;Hester F;Harper S;Evans SJ;Douglas IJ;Smeeth L;Eggo RM;Goldacre B
通讯作者:
Goldacre B
影响因子:
8.8
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DOI:
10.1056/nejmoa1301372
发表时间:
2013-10-03
期刊:
The New England journal of medicine
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DOI:
10.1016/s2213-2600(20)30579-8
发表时间:
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期刊:
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影响因子:
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Navaratnam AV;Gray WK;Day J;Wendon J;Briggs TWR
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Briggs TWR
DOI:
10.1016/j.cmi.2020.09.023
发表时间:
2021-01
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Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
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Xiong Q;Xu M;Li J;Liu Y;Zhang J;Xu Y;Dong W
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