Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Data Gaps for Coronavirus Disease Deaths, Tennessee, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis
; 27(10): 2521-2528, 2021 10.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1486736
ABSTRACT
As of March 2021, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had led to >500,000 deaths in the United States, and the state of Tennessee had the fifth highest number of cases per capita. We reviewed the Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 surveillance and chart-abstraction data during March 15âAugust 15, 2020. Patients who died from COVID-19 were more likely to be older, male, and Black and to have underlying conditions (hereafter comorbidities) than case-patients who survived. We found 30.4% of surviving case-patients and 20.3% of deceased patients had no comorbidity information recorded. Chart-abstraction captured a higher proportion of deceased case-patients with >1 comorbidity (96.3%) compared with standard surveillance deaths (79.0%). Chart-abstraction detected higher rates of each comorbidity except for diabetes, which had similar rates among standard surveillance and chart-abstraction. Investing in public health data collection infrastructure will be beneficial for the COVID-19 pandemic and future disease outbreaks.
Keywords
Black patients; COVID-19; Hispanic patients; SARS-CoV-2; Tennessee; United States; White patients; comorbidities; coronavirus disease; coronaviruses; epidemiology; ethnic groups; mortality rates; population characteristics; public health surveillance; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; underlying conditions; viruses; zoonoses
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Emerg Infect Dis
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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