Characterization of COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients in Three United States Electronic Health Record Databases
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Published:2023-03-01
Issue:3
Volume:12
Page:390
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ISSN:2076-0817
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Container-title:Pathogens
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Pathogens
Author:
Saunders-Hastings Patrick1, Zhou Cindy Ke2, Hobbi Shayan3, Boyd Eva1, Lloyd Patricia2, Alawar Nader3, Burrell Timothy3ORCID, Beers Jeff3, Clarke Tainya C.2, Hettinger Aaron Z.4ORCID, Wong Hui-Lee2, Shoaibi Azadeh2
Affiliation:
1. Gevity Consulting Inc., part of Accenture, Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4, Canada 2. Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA 3. IBM Consulting, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA 4. Center for Biostatistics, Informatics and Data Science, MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Abstract
COVID-19 infections have contributed to substantial increases in hospitalizations. This study describes demographics, baseline clinical characteristics and treatments, and clinical outcomes among U.S. patients admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 during the prevaccine phase of the pandemic. A total of 20,446 hospitalized patients with a positive COVID-19 nucleic acid amplification test were identified from three large electronic health record databases during 5 February–30 November 2020 (Academic Health System: n = 4504; Explorys; n = 7492; OneFlorida: n = 8450). Over 90% of patients were ≥30 years of age, with an even distribution between sexes. At least one comorbidity was recorded in 84.6–96.1% of patients; cardiovascular and respiratory conditions (28.8–50.3%) and diabetes (25.6–44.4%) were most common. Anticoagulants were the most frequently reported medications on or up to 28 days after admission (44.5–81.7%). Remdesivir was administered to 14.1–24.6% of patients and increased over time. Patients exhibited higher COVID-19 severity 14 days following admission than the 14 days prior to and on admission. The length of in-patient hospital stay ranged from a median of 4 to 6 days, and over 85% of patients were discharged alive. These results promote understanding of the clinical characteristics and hospital-resource utilization associated with hospitalized COVID-19 over time.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),General Immunology and Microbiology,Molecular Biology,Immunology and Allergy
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