Hospital outcomes of community-acquired COVID-19 versus influenza : Insights from the Swiss hospital-based surveillance of influenza and COVID-19

BackgroundSince the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease has frequently been compared with seasonal influenza, but this comparison is based on little empirical data.AimThis study compares in-hospital outcomes for patients with community-acquired COVID-19 and patients with community-acquired influenza in Switzerland.MethodsThis retrospective multi-centre cohort study includes patients > 18 years admitted for COVID-19 or influenza A/B infection determined by RT-PCR. Primary and secondary outcomes were in-hospital mortality and intensive care unit (ICU) admission for patients with COVID-19 or influenza. We used Cox regression (cause-specific and Fine-Gray subdistribution hazard models) to account for time-dependency and competing events with inverse probability weighting to adjust for confounders.ResultsIn 2020, 2,843 patients with COVID-19 from 14 centres were included. Between 2018 and 2020, 1,381 patients with influenza from seven centres were included; 1,722 (61%) of the patients with COVID-19 and 666 (48%) of the patients with influenza were male (p < 0.001). The patients with COVID-19 were younger (median 67 years; interquartile range (IQR): 54-78) than the patients with influenza (median 74 years; IQR: 61-84) (p < 0.001). A larger percentage of patients with COVID-19 (12.8%) than patients with influenza (4.4%) died in hospital (p < 0.001). The final adjusted subdistribution hazard ratio for mortality was 3.01 (95% CI: 2.22-4.09; p < 0.001) for COVID-19 compared with influenza and 2.44 (95% CI: 2.00-3.00, p < 0.001) for ICU admission.ConclusionCommunity-acquired COVID-19 was associated with worse outcomes compared with community-acquired influenza, as the hazards of ICU admission and in-hospital death were about two-fold to three-fold higher.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 27(2022), 1 vom: 07. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fröhlich, Georg Marcus [VerfasserIn]
De Kraker, Marlieke E A [VerfasserIn]
Abbas, Mohamed [VerfasserIn]
Keiser, Olivia [VerfasserIn]
Thiabaud, Amaury [VerfasserIn]
Roelens, Maroussia [VerfasserIn]
Cusini, Alexia [VerfasserIn]
Flury, Domenica [VerfasserIn]
Schreiber, Peter W [VerfasserIn]
Buettcher, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Corti, Natascia [VerfasserIn]
Vuichard-Gysin, Danielle [VerfasserIn]
Troillet, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Sauser, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Gaudenz, Roman [VerfasserIn]
Damonti, Lauro [VerfasserIn]
Balmelli, Carlo [VerfasserIn]
Iten, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Widmer, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Harbarth, Stephan [VerfasserIn]
Sommerstein, Rami [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Air-borne infections
COVID-19
Clinic
Epidemiology
ICU
Influenza
Influenza virus
Journal Article
Mortality
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Severe acute respiratory syndrome – SARS
Surveillance
Switzerland
Viral infections

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Date Completed 11.01.2022

Date Revised 15.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.1.2001848

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335271154