COVID-19 tied to approximately doubled in-hospital mortality rates versus bacterial or other viral pneumonias<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n
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MONDAY, Feb. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 is associated with significantly higher mortality in older adults in the intensive care unit (ICU) versus pneumonias from bacterial or other viral etiologies, according to a study published online Feb. 8 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n Lenneke E.M. Haas, M.D., Ph.D., from Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht, Netherlands, and colleagues compared outcomes of 5,094 patients aged 70 years and older admitted to Dutch ICUs with COVID-19 versus patients aged 70 years and older admitted to the ICU for bacterial and other viral pneumonias (6,646 patients). <\/p>\n The researchers found that ICU mortality and in-hospital mortality rates of the older patients with COVID-19 were 39.7 and 47.6 percent, respectively, versus patients who were admitted in the same or in a historical time period with a bacterial pneumonia or other viral pneumonias (bacterial: 19.5 and 28.6 percent for historical cohort and 19.1 and 28.8 percent in the same period; other viral pneumonias: 20.7 and 28.9 percent for historical cohort and 22.7 and 31.8 percent in the same period). Associations remained after adjusting for clinical characteristics and ICU occupancy rate.<\/p>\n “Our findings provide important additional data to include in informed goals-of-care discussions,” the authors write.<\/p>\n