Older age and frailty are the chief predictors of mortality in COVID-19 patients admitted to an acute medical unit in a secondary care setting- a cohort study

Chinnadurai, Rajkumar; Ogedengbe, Onesi; Agarwal, Priya; Money-Coomes, Sally; Z Abdurrahman, Ahmad; Mohammed, Sajeel; A. Kalra, Philip; Rothwell, Nicola; Pradhan, Sweta

doi:10.1186/s12877-020-01803-5

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Older age and frailty are the chief predictors of mortality in COVID-19 patients admitted to an acute medical unit in a secondary care setting- a cohort study

Published in BMC Geriatrics • Oct 16, 2020

Authors:

Rajkumar Chinnadurai

Onesi Ogedengbe

Priya Agarwal

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is a need for more observational studies across different clinical settings to better understand the epidemiology of the novel COVID-19 infection. Evidence on clinical characteristics of COVID-19 infection is scarce in secondary care settings in Western populations. METHODS: We des...

Subject

Medicine

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

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