Hospital assistance for COVID-19 : a comparison between non-Italian and Italian resident population in five Italian Regions since the beginning of the pandemic until June 2021

OBJECTIVES: to describe trends of overall and intensive care hospitalization for COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy until June 2021, and to compare the results between foreign and Italian population.

DESIGN: retrospective observational study.

SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: hospital discharges of 28 million people living in Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna (Northern Italy), Toscana and Lazio (Central Italy) occurred between 22.02.2020 and 02.07.2021 in the hospitals located in each considered Region.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: two weekly outcomes were examined: 1. the overall number of COVID-19 hospitalizations; 2. the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in intensive care units.

RESULTS: a higher COVID-19 overall and intensive care unit hospitalization was found among the foreign population compared to Italians. The association emerged only after the adjustment for age, and it was consistent among all Regions, though less marked in Lombardy. The association varied across epidemic phases.

CONCLUSIONS: the issue of vulnerability of migrants to the risk of severe COVID-19 calls for a diversity-sensitive approach in prevention. The specific country of origin and the prevalence of preventable co-morbidities that are often underestimated in the migrant populations, and related to COVID-19 complications, should be taken into consideration in future analyses.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

Enthalten in:

Epidemiologia e prevenzione - 46(2022), 4 vom: 04. Juli, Seite 49-58

Sprache:

Italienisch

Weiterer Titel:

Un confronto tra italiani e stranieri residenti nell’assistenza ospedaliera per COVID-19 in cinque Regioni italiane da inizio pandemia a giugno 2021

Beteiligte Personen:

Cacciani, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Calandrini, Enrico [VerfasserIn]
Cascini, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Spadea, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Rusciani, Raffaella [VerfasserIn]
Ercolanoni, Michele [VerfasserIn]
Maifredi, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Ferroni, Eliana [VerfasserIn]
Bartolini, Letizia [VerfasserIn]
Caranci, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Silvestri, Caterina [VerfasserIn]
Profili, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Cernigliaro, Achille [VerfasserIn]
Petrelli, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Di Napoli, Anteo [VerfasserIn]
Davoli, Marina [VerfasserIn]
Agabiti, Nera [VerfasserIn]
Gruppo di lavoro INMP Covid19 e immigrati [VerfasserIn]
Agabiti, Nera [Sonstige Person]
Balducci, Maria [Sonstige Person]
Cacciani, Laura [Sonstige Person]
Calandrini, Enrico [Sonstige Person]
Cascini, Silvia [Sonstige Person]
Davoli, Marina [Sonstige Person]
Allotta, Alessandra Vincenza [Sonstige Person]
Cernigliaro, Achille [Sonstige Person]
Avossa, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Fedeli, Ugo [Sonstige Person]
Ferroni, Eliana [Sonstige Person]
Gennaro, Nicola [Sonstige Person]
Zorzi, Manuel [Sonstige Person]
Bartolini, Letizia [Sonstige Person]
Giorgi Rossi, Paolo [Sonstige Person]
Bortolan, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Ercolanoni, Michele [Sonstige Person]
Leoni, Olivia [Sonstige Person]
Caranci, Nicola [Sonstige Person]
Di Girolamo, Chiara [Sonstige Person]
Cereda, Danilo [Sonstige Person]
Di Napoli, Anteo [Sonstige Person]
Petrelli, Alessio [Sonstige Person]
Rossi, Alessandra [Sonstige Person]
Ventura, Martina [Sonstige Person]
Fanetti, Anna Clara [Sonstige Person]
Lazzeretti, Marco [Sonstige Person]
Profili, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Silvestri, Caterina [Sonstige Person]
Magoni, Michele [Sonstige Person]
Maifredi, Giovanni [Sonstige Person]
Mondo, Luisa [Sonstige Person]
Rusciani, Raffaella [Sonstige Person]
Spadea, Teresa [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Hospitalisation
Immigrants
Intensive care
Italy
Journal Article
Observational Study

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 25.07.2022

Date Revised 25.07.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.19191/EP22.4S1.056

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM343825694