Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID ‐19 during the Omicron ( BA .1) wave in Queensland

• DOI: 10.5694/mja2.51813
• Publication Date: 2022-12-16T07:54:47Z
• Authors: Robert J Ellis; Cameron RM Moffatt; Luke T Aaron; Greta Beaverson; Khin Chaw; Corinne Curtis; Rhett Freeman‐Lamb; Deborah Judd; Khadija Khatry; Yee Sum Li; Terry Nash; Bonnie Macfarlane; Karen Slater; Yudish Soonarane; Mark Stickley; Satyamurthy Anuradha
• Keywords: Male; Heart Failure; COVID-19 Vaccines; SARS-CoV-2; Research; COVID-19; 3. Good health; Hospitalization; 03 medical and health sciences; COVID-19 Testing; 0302 clinical medicine; Child, Preschool; Humans; Female; Dementia; Queensland; Aged; Retrospective Studies

To identify characteristics associated with the hospitalisation and death of people COVID-19 living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs).Retrospective cohort study.All confirmed (polymerase chain reaction testing) or probable SARS-CoV-2 infections (rapid antigen tests) residents 86 RACFs Metro South Hospital Health Service area (southeast Queensland), 13 December 2021 - 24 January 2022.Hospitalisation within 14 days 28 diagnosis.Of 1071 RACF COVID-19, 151 were hospitalised 126 died diagnosis. Likelihood increased age (per five years: adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.21-1.57), but not that hospitalisation. Men more likely to be (aOR, 1.7; CI, 1.2-2.4) die 2.5; 1.7-3.6) than women. The likelihood was greater for those dementia 1.9; 1.2-3.0), heart failure 1.1-2.7), chronic kidney disease 1.1-2.5), asthma 2.2; 1.2-3.8). 1.3-3.7), diabetes mellitus 1.3-3.0), 2.0; 1.1-3.3), lung 1.1-2.7). each higher who had received two fewer vaccine doses three doses.Most influenced non-modifiable factors linked frailty general health status. Having much lower death.