{"id":9962,"date":"2021-05-21T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:27:00","slug":"clinical-behavioural-and-social-factors-associated-with-racial-disparities-in-covid-19-patients-from-an-integrated-healthcare-system-in-georgia-a-retrospective-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/clinical-behavioural-and-social-factors-associated-with-racial-disparities-in-covid-19-patients-from-an-integrated-healthcare-system-in-georgia-a-retrospective-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical, Behavioural and Social Factors Associated with Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Patients from an Integrated Healthcare System in Georgia: A Retrospective Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A retrospective cohort study of Kaiser Permanente Georgia members with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (N=5,712) found Black (OR=1.4) and Hispanic (OR=1.6) members had higher odds of hospitalization, but not mortality, compared to white and Asian members. Additionally, a higher proportion of members diagnosed with COVID-19 were Black or Hispanic, compared to white or Asian (58% vs 9%). However, Asian patients had the highest rates of ICU admission and mechanical ventilation. Among all patients, age, living in a zip code with high unemployment, having a comorbidity, and physical inactivity were associated with higher odds of hospitalization.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lobelo et al. (May 19, 2021). Clinical, Behavioural and Social Factors Associated with Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Patients from an Integrated Healthcare System in Georgia: A Retrospective Cohort Study. BMJ Open. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-044052\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-044052<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective cohort study of Kaiser Permanente Georgia members with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (N=5,712) found Black (OR=1.4) and Hispanic (OR=1.6) members had higher odds of hospitalization, but not mortality, compared to white and Asian members. Additionally, a higher proportion of members diagnosed with COVID-19 were Black or Hispanic, compared to white or Asian (58% vs 9%)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/21\/clinical-behavioural-and-social-factors-associated-with-racial-disparities-in-covid-19-patients-from-an-integrated-healthcare-system-in-georgia-a-retrospective-cohort-study\/\">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":[42],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962","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=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9963,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions\/9963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}