Tropical Australian health-data linkage shows excess mortality following severe infectious disease is present in the short-term and long-term after hospital discharge
Adegboye, Oyelola A., McBryde, Emma S., and Eisen, Damon P. (2021) Tropical Australian health-data linkage shows excess mortality following severe infectious disease is present in the short-term and long-term after hospital discharge. Healthcare, 9 (7). 901.
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Abstract
Background: In this study, we aimed to assess the risk factors associated with mortality due to an infectious disease over the short-, medium-, and long-term based on a data-linkage study for patients discharged from an infectious disease unit in North Queensland, Australia, between 2006 and 2011.
Methods: Age-sex standardised mortality rates (SMR) for different subgroups were estimated, and the Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate and compare the survival experience among different groups.
Results: Overall, the mortality rate in the hospital cohort was higher than expected in comparison with the Queensland population (SMR: 15.3, 95%CI: 14.9–15.6). The long-term mortality risks were significantly higher for severe infectious diseases than non-infectious diseases for male sex, Indigenous, residential aged care and elderly individuals.
Conclusion: In general, male sex, Indigenous status, age and comorbidity were associated with an increased hazard for all-cause deaths
| Item ID: | 68723 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2227-9032 |
| Keywords: | sepsis; mortality; infectious disease; data-linkage; North Queensland |
| Copyright Information: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Funders: | Advance Queensland Research Fellowship |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2021 22:59 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3202 Clinical sciences > 320211 Infectious diseases @ 60% 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4206 Public health > 420699 Public health not elsewhere classified @ 40% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2002 Evaluation of health and support services > 200202 Evaluation of health outcomes @ 50% 20 HEALTH > 2002 Evaluation of health and support services > 200204 Health inequalities @ 50% |
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