{"id":6982,"date":"2021-03-18T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:34:10","slug":"frailty-as-a-predictor-of-mortality-among-patients-with-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/18\/frailty-as-a-predictor-of-mortality-among-patients-with-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Frailty as a Predictor of Mortality among Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COVID-19 patients with frailty had a 2.5-fold higher risk of dying compared to those without frailty, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 studies including 23,944 COVID-19 patients. Subgroup analyses of studies with hospitalized patients (n=8 studies) and nursing home residents (n=2) showed that risk of dying among patients with frailty was 2.6-fold and 2.1-fold higher, respectively. Patients with frailty were at higher risk of mortality regardless of the frailty assessment tool used.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhang et al.\u00a0(Mar 17, 2021). Frailty as a Predictor of Mortality among Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. BMC Geriatrics. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12877-021-02138-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12877-021-02138-5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 patients with frailty had a 2.5-fold higher risk of dying compared to those without frailty, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 studies including 23,944 COVID-19 patients. Subgroup analyses of studies with hospitalized patients (n=8 studies) and nursing home residents (n=2) showed that risk of dying among patients with frailty was 2.6-fold&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/18\/frailty-as-a-predictor-of-mortality-among-patients-with-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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":[34,164],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-risk-factor","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","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=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}