作者
Elizabeth J Williamson, Helen I McDonald, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Alex J Walker, Sebastian Bacon, Simon Davy, Anna Schultze, Laurie Tomlinson, Chris Bates, Mary Ramsay, Helen J Curtis, Harriet Forbes, Kevin Wing, Caroline Minassian, John Tazare, Caroline E Morton, Emily Nightingale, Amir Mehrkar, Dave Evans, Peter Inglesby, Brian MacKenna, Jonathan Cockburn, Christopher T Rentsch, Rohini Mathur, Angel YS Wong, Rosalind M Eggo, William Hulme, Richard Croker, John Parry, Frank Hester, Sam Harper, Ian J Douglas, Stephen JW Evans, Liam Smeeth, Ben Goldacre, Hannah Kuper
发表日期
2021/7/15
期刊
bmj
卷号
374
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Objective
To assess the association between learning disability and risk of hospital admission and death from covid-19 in England among adults and children.
Design
Population based cohort study on behalf of NHS England using the OpenSAFELY platform.
Setting
Patient level data were obtained for more than 17 million people registered with a general practice in England that uses TPP software. Electronic health records were linked with death data from the Office for National Statistics and hospital admission data from NHS Secondary Uses Service.
Participants
Adults (aged 16-105 years) and children (<16 years) from two cohorts: wave 1 (registered with a TPP practice as of 1 March 2020 and followed until 31 August 2020); and wave 2 (registered 1 September 2020 and followed until 8 February 2021). The main exposure group consisted of people on a general practice learning disability register; a subgroup …
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