2024
Development of a prediction model for 30-day COVID-19 hospitalization and death in a national cohort of Veterans Health Administration patients–March 2022—April 2023
Bui D, Bajema K, Huang Y, Yan L, Li Y, Rajeevan N, Berry K, Rowneki M, Argraves S, Hynes D, Huang G, Aslan M, Ioannou G. Development of a prediction model for 30-day COVID-19 hospitalization and death in a national cohort of Veterans Health Administration patients–March 2022—April 2023. PLOS ONE 2024, 19: e0307235. PMID: 39365775, PMCID: PMC11451987, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307235.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVeterans Health AdministrationCOVID-19 hospitalizationArea under the receiver operating characteristic curveComprehensive electronic health recordNational cohortElectronic health recordsAll-cause mortalityNational cohort of patientsFull modelHealth recordsHealth AdministrationReceipt of COVID-19 vaccineMortality riskEpidemiology of COVID-19COVID-19High-risk patientsBrier scoreCohort of patientsAnti-SARS-CoV-2 treatmentCOVID-19 vaccineReceiver operating characteristic curveCalibration interceptHospitalAntiviral treatmentAvailability of effective vaccines
2023
Late Mortality After COVID-19 Infection Among US Veterans vs Risk-Matched Comparators
Iwashyna T, Seelye S, Berkowitz T, Pura J, Bohnert A, Bowling C, Boyko E, Hynes D, Ioannou G, Maciejewski M, O’Hare A, Viglianti E, Womer J, Prescott H, Smith V, Admon A, Akgun K, Anderson S, Aslan M, Au D, Backus L, Bajema K, Baraff A, Batten L, Berkowitz T, Bernstein T, Berry Wyatt K, Bogdan J, Bosworth H, Boucher N, Burwick N, Cabrales A, Cano J, Chai W, Chen J, Cheung K, Crothers K, Curtis J, Davis M, Del Monico E, Dobalian A, Doll J, Dominitz J, Eastment M, Fan V, Ferguson J, Floyd B, Fox A, Goetz M, Govier D, Green P, Hastings S, Hauschildt K, Hawkins E, Hebert P, Helfand M, Hickok A, Horowitz D, Hough C, Hu E, Ikuta K, Jones B, Jones M, Kamphuis L, Kaufman B, Knight S, Korpak A, Korpela P, Kumbier K, Langa K, Laundry R, Lavin S, Li Y, Linquist J, McCready H, Michel M, Miles A, Milne J, Monahan M, Morelli D, Mutalik P, Naylor J, Neiderhausen M, Newell S, Nugent S, Ong M, Osborne T, Peterson M, Peterson A, Rajeevan N, Reddy A, Rouse M, Rowneki M, Saha S, Saini S, Shah J, Shahoumian T, Shaukat A, Shepherd-Banigan M, Showalter W, Slatore C, Smith N, Smith B, Suri P, Sussman J, Takata Y, Teo A, Thomas E, Thomas L, Tuepker A, Veigulis Z, Vig E, Vranas K, Wang X, Wicks K, Winchell K, Wong E, Woods C, Wysham K, Yan L, Zulman D. Late Mortality After COVID-19 Infection Among US Veterans vs Risk-Matched Comparators. JAMA Internal Medicine 2023, 183: 1111-1119. PMID: 37603339, PMCID: PMC10442778, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3587.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCOVID-19 infectionAdjusted hazard ratioRetrospective cohort studyUninfected comparatorsLate mortalityCohort studyHazard ratioMortality riskCOVID-19Acute COVID-19Excess mortality riskUnadjusted mortality ratesVeterans Affairs hospitalCOVID-19 persistHealth record dataCause mortalityCox regressionUS veteransExcess mortalityDay 180Mortality rateUninfected individualsPrimary analysisDay 91Excess deaths