{"id":8844,"date":"2021-04-07T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:07:58","slug":"racial-and-ethnic-differences-and-clinical-outcomes-of-covid-19-patients-presenting-to-the-emergency-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/racial-and-ethnic-differences-and-clinical-outcomes-of-covid-19-patients-presenting-to-the-emergency-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial and Ethnic Differences and Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cohort study of 87 US health systems from December 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020 found that nearly half (41%) of patients presenting to the ED with COVID-19 were hospitalized. The study found that the risk of in-hospital mortality was higher in Black (RR=1.18) and Hispanic patients (RR=1.28) compared to white patients, while the risks of hospitalization were similar in Black (RR=0.94) and Hispanic patients (RR=0.99).<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wiley et al.\u00a0(Apr 2, 2021). Racial and Ethnic Differences and Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab290\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab290<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort study of 87 US health systems from December 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020 found that nearly half (41%) of patients presenting to the ED with COVID-19 were hospitalized. The study found that the risk of in-hospital mortality was higher in Black (RR=1.18) and Hispanic patients (RR=1.28) compared to white patients, while the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/07\/racial-and-ethnic-differences-and-clinical-outcomes-of-covid-19-patients-presenting-to-the-emergency-department\/\">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],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-8844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","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=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8845,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions\/8845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}