Comparing the Clinical Characteristics and Mortality of Residential and Non-Residential Older People with Covid-19

Retrospective Observational Study

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ID15512939
AuthorsFrancesc X Marín-Gomez (0000-0002-6749-0468, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya), Jacobo Mendioroz (0000-0002-8883-2180, Generalitat de Catalunya), Jacobo Mendioroz-Peña (Health Promotion in Rural Areas Research Group, Gerència Territorial de la Catalunya Central, Institut Català de la Salut, 08772 St. Fruitós de Bages, Spain), Miguel Ángel Mayer (0000-0003-0362-6298, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, corresponding author), Miguel-Angel Mayer (Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain), Leonardo Méndez-Boo (0000-0002-9215-4378, Institut Català de la Salut), Núria Mora (0000-0002-1742-9183, Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol), Eduardo Hermosilla (0000-0002-3031-0304, Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol), Ermengol Coma (0000-0001-8000-3321, Institut Català de la Salut), Josep Vilaseca (0000-0002-1577-5728, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya), Ángela Leis (0000-0003-4780-7111, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Manolo Medina (Institut Català de la Salut), Queralt Miró Catalina (0000-0001-7379-4671, Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol), Josep Vidal‐Alaball (0000-0002-3527-4242, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya)
Year2022
Volume19
Issue1
Pages483-483
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph19010483
PMID35010742
OpenAlexW4206267099
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited43

Nursing homes have accounted for a significant part of SARS-CoV-2 mortality, causing great social alarm. Using data collected from electronic medical records of 1,319,839 institutionalised and non-institutionalised persons ≥ 65 years, the present study investigated the epidemiology and differential characteristics between these two population groups. Our results showed that the form of presentation of the epidemic outbreak, as well as some risk factors, are different among the elderly institutionalised population with respect to those who are not. In addition to a twenty-fold increase in the rate of adjusted mortality among institutionalised individuals, the peak incidence was delayed by approximately three weeks. Having dementia was shown to be a risk factor for death, and, unlike the non-institutionalised group, neither obesity nor age were shown to be significantly associated with the risk of death among the institutionalised. These differential characteristics should be able to guide the actions to be taken by the health administration in the event of a similar infectious situation among institutionalised elderly people

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Dementia · Disease · Environmental health · Incidence (geometry · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Nursing homes · Observational study · Outbreak · Pathology · Population · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Demography · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Medicine · Epidemiology · Gerontology

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