Target RWE issued the following announcement on May 25.
Real-world evidence leader Target RWE announced today COVID-19 data that has been recently published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases (https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab464). The study, Factors Associated with Readmission in the US Following Hospitalization with COVID-19, found that of 29,659 hospitalized patients discharged alive, 1,070 (3.6%) were readmitted.
The aim of the study was to estimate the rate of readmission among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and to identify risk factors for readmission that can be targeted for intervention. Mortality among readmitted patients was also assessed.
Key findings include:
"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the immediate need for real-world evidence that can help inform treatment. Reducing hospital readmissions can save valuable resources and most importantly, directly improve COVID-19 care for the patient," said Julie Mallory Crawford, MD, Senior Director of Scientific and Medical Affairs, Target RWE.
Target RWE has a growing database of more than 2.5 million deidentified patients from over 370 healthcare institutions and hospitals across the U.S. In this study, deidentified chargemaster data were obtained from 297 hospitals in 40 states of adult patients in the U.S. hospitalized with COVID-19, who were admitted, discharged alive, and followed for readmission between February 15 and June 15, 2020.
Target RWE published COVID-19 research data with Clinical Infectious Diseases as well in August 2020 titled Patient Characteristics and Outcomes of 11,721 Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Hospitalized Across the United States (https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1268).
About Target RWE
Target RWE is a health evidence solutions company generating innovative real-world evidence (RWE) for healthcare partners. Target RWE's novel NoviSci analytics platform enables the analysis and visualization of health data using state-of-the-science epidemiological methods and scientific principles, providing a highly adaptive environment to accelerate insights and reproducible research.
Learn more at www.targetrwe.com.
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