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- Title
Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Data Gaps for Coronavirus Disease Deaths, Tennessee, USA.
- Authors
Parker, John James; Octaria, Rany; Smith, Miranda D.; Chao, Samantha J.; Davis, Mary Beth; Goodson, Celia; Warkentin, Jon; Werner, Denise; Fill, Mary-Margaret A.
- Abstract
As of March 2021, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had led to >500,000 deaths in the United States, and the state of Tennessee had the fifth highest number of cases per capita. We reviewed the Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 surveillance and chart-abstraction data during March 15‒August 15, 2020. Patients who died from COVID-19 were more likely to be older, male, and Black and to have underlying conditions (hereafter comorbidities) than case-patients who survived. We found 30.4% of surviving case-patients and 20.3% of deceased patients had no comorbidity information recorded. Chart-abstraction captured a higher proportion of deceased case-patients with >1 comorbidity (96.3%) compared with standard surveillance deaths (79.0%). Chart-abstraction detected higher rates of each comorbidity except for diabetes, which had similar rates among standard surveillance and chart-abstraction. Investing in public health data collection infrastructure will be beneficial for the COVID-19 pandemic and future disease outbreaks.
- Subjects
TENNESSEE; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; DISEASE outbreaks; PUBLIC health surveillance; COMORBIDITY
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 10, p2521
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2710.211070