{"id":6641,"date":"2020-05-05T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:15:08","slug":"analysis-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-the-mount-sinai-health-system-using-electronic-medical-records-emr-reveals-important-prognostic-factors-for-improved-clinical-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/05\/analysis-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-the-mount-sinai-health-system-using-electronic-medical-records-emr-reveals-important-prognostic-factors-for-improved-clinical-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the Mount Sinai Health System Using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Reveals Important Prognostic Factors for Improved Clinical Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An analysis of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3,272 persons with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">requir<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0hospitalization<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at Mount Sinai Health System in New York found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">age, body-mass index (BMI),\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">baseline\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, white blood cell count, creatinine, and alanine aminotransferase were significant\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">predictors<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of mortality. Asthma was associated with increased length of hospital stay, but not mortality.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among patients who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, a higher proportion of Hispanic and African American patients tested positive (29% and 25%, respectively) compared to the overall patient population (22%, 6158\/<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">28<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">336).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0While race was associated with the prevalence of infection among patients, the authors did not observe racial disparities in inpatient mortality.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wang<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May 4,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Analysis of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in the Mount Sinai Health System Using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Reveals Important Prognostic Factors for Improved Clinical Outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint downloaded May 5 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Medrxiv<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.28.20075788\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.28.20075788<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of\u00a03,272 persons with\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0who\u00a0required\u00a0hospitalization\u00a0at Mount Sinai Health System in New York found\u00a0that\u00a0age, body-mass index (BMI),\u00a0baseline\u00a0oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, white blood cell count, creatinine, and alanine aminotransferase were significant\u00a0predictors\u00a0of mortality. Asthma was associated with increased length of hospital stay, but not mortality.\u00a0\u00a0 Among patients who were tested for SARS-CoV-2, a higher proportion of Hispanic and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/05\/analysis-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-the-mount-sinai-health-system-using-electronic-medical-records-emr-reveals-important-prognostic-factors-for-improved-clinical-outcomes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}