{"id":230,"date":"2023-08-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=230"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:00:28","slug":"patients-hospitalized-with-covid-19-found-to-face-nearly-twice-the-rates-of-death-after-discharge-as-patients-with-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/patients-hospitalized-with-covid-19-found-to-face-nearly-twice-the-rates-of-death-after-discharge-as-patients-with-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 found to face nearly twice the rates of death after discharge as patients with flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Medical Xpress<\/h2>\n<h2>August&nbsp;10, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>In a new study, researchers used Medicare data to characterize the long-term risk of death and hospital readmission after being hospitalized with COVID-19 among patients 65 years and older. The study demonstrates that among patients who were admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 and discharged alive, the risk of post-discharge death was nearly twice that observed in those who were discharged alive from an influenza-related hospital admission.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-08-patients-hospitalized-covid-death-discharge.html\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-08-patients-hospitalized-covid-death-discharge.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Oseran A S, Song Y, Xu J, Dahabreh I J, Wadhera R K, de Lemos J A et al. Long term risk of death and readmission after hospital admission with covid-19 among older adults: retrospective cohort study <i>BMJ<\/i> 2023;382:e076222. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj-2023-076222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1136\/bmj-2023-076222<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/382\/bmj-2023-076222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bmj.com\/content\/382\/bmj-2023-076222<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Medical Xpress<\/h3>\n<h3>August&nbsp;10, 2023<\/h3>\n<p>In a new study, researchers used Medicare data to characterize the long-term risk of death and hospital readmission after being hospitalized with COVID-19 among patients 65 years and older. The study demonstrates that among patients who were admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 and discharged alive, the risk of post-discharge death was nearly twice that observed in those who were discharged alive from an influenza-related hospital admission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/patients-hospitalized-with-covid-19-found-to-face-nearly-twice-the-rates-of-death-after-discharge-as-patients-with-flu\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 found to face nearly twice the rates of death after discharge as patients with flu<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,78,77,8,14,186,51],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalizations","tag-influenza","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-seniors","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}